Outdoor smoking 禁止（する） comes into 影響 in New York but smokers remain 反抗的な

By Paul Bentley for the Daily Mail
Updated: 09:33 BST, 27 May 2011

Tourists in New York might find that the 空気／公表する is that little bit fresher on their next visit to Central Park after a 禁止（する） on outdoor smoking （機の）カム into 影響 on Monday.

Smokers can no longer 合法的に light up in the c ity's public parks, beaches and promenades. 歩行者 plazas are also no smoking zones, 含むing the ones in Times Square and 先触れ（する） Square.

But many smokers said they would 侮辱する／軽蔑する the 禁止（する）, にもかかわらず the 脅し of a $50 罰金.

No more of that! Robert Pattinson smokes on 始める，決める in Central Park before the 禁止（する） （機の）カム in

People will be 罰金d for lighting up in any New York parks - except the Roberto Clemente, Riverbank, Gantry Plaza, Empire-Fulton フェリー（で運ぶ）, East River, Bayswater Point, Clay 炭坑，オーケストラ席 Ponds 明言する／公表する Parks.

But some smokers on the streets of New York said it was 価値（がある） 危険ing the $50 刑罰，罰則.

Chazz Awakirobon a 33-year-old dishwasher from the East Village told Metro: 'いつかs, 支払う／賃金ing $50 is 価値（がある） that one drag of a cigarette.'

The suggestion that the 罰金 is not deterrent enough for smokers to keep to the 禁止（する） is 増強するd by the fact that the NYPC is leaving 法律 施行 to the Parks Department, which does not 計画（する） on 割れ目ing 負かす／撃墜する very hard.

Time for a change: A no smoking 調印する in the 歩行者 plaza, Times Square

反抗的な: A woman today smokes in the Times Square 歩行者 plaza

'The new smoking 禁止（する） is a 質-of-life 支配する that is まず第一に／本来 self-施行するing,' Parks Department spokeswoman Vicki Karp said. 'We’re counting on all New Yorkers to 従う just as they do with other 質-of-life 支配するs.'

いっそう少なく 反抗的な smokers said they would 簡単に start going more often to Brooklyn 橋（渡しをする） or East River, where it is still 合法的な to light up in all seven 明言する／公表する parks.

Brooklyn 居住（者） Tyrell Dougeherty, 27, said: '$50 is a lot of money. That’s like three packs of cigarettes. 'I will definitely go to those 明言する／公表する parks.'

抗議するs: 行動主義者 Jessica Jones seen here at a 決起大会／結集させる in New York

Zoe Rosario, 22, said: 'I’m a smoker and I 反対する!'

Her boyfriend, Richard Crawford, also of East Williamsburg, told the New York Times he understood why smoking would be banned in 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s and restaurants.

'But outside is ludicrous,' he 追加するd.

In a その上の 調印する of 反抗, 抗議するs have been planned in spite of the 法律制定.?

Later this week, smokers' 権利s group New York City 国民s ロビーing Against Smoker いやがらせ, is 組織するing a 'Smoke-in the park' event, where a （人が）群がる will 同時に light up on the Brighton Beach boardwalk.

Organiser Audrey Silk said: 'This 法律 will be paid the 尊敬（する）・点 it deserves.'

The 禁止（する） is the 最新の 手段 器具／実施するd by New York 市長 Michael Bloomberg to 削減（する） 負かす／撃墜する on unwanted second-手渡す smoking in public areas.

Bloomberg's 2002 （選挙などの）運動をする to stop smokers lighting up in 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業s was successful and popular when it went into 影響 the に引き続いて year.

It has been 違法な to smoke in most restaurants in the city since 1995.

A 熟考する／考慮する two years ago for the Health Department 設立する that 57 per cent of 非，不，無-smoking New Yorkers had a high level of nicotine byproduct in their 血 which 示唆するd 最近の （危険などに）さらす to cigarette smoke. 全国的な, the 人物／姿／数字 is a much lower 45 per cent.