Just like my idol the monoxyde child I’m a chainsmoker and prefer menthol
Galila Huff, a chain-smoking restaurateur from the Upper West Side, always thought that when it came to smoking, her apartment was her sanctuary.
But perhaps it is no longer. Her neighbors, Jonathan Selbin, a class-action lawyer who has honed his skills suing major corporations, and his wife, Jenny Selbin, also a lawyer, are irate over the cigarette smoke that they say seeps from Ms. Huff’s apartment into the common hallway of their building, the elegant Beaux-Arts Ansonia, on Broadway between 73rd and 74th Streets.
Her smoking, they say, makes the hallway smell like “a Las Vegas casino,” and the secondhand smoke is jeopardizing the health of their 4-year-old son, Charlie.
In a lawsuit filed on Thursday, they are demanding that she “cease and desist from causing smoke to enter into the common hallway,” and that she pay punitive damages.
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Even as New York taxpayers spend $87 million a year urging smokers to kick the habit, the state is selling lighters and ashtrays plastered with the “I ♥ NY” logo. The sales are part of a marketing push that saw state revenues from officially licensed novelties surge past $1 million last year, up from $531,000 in 2005.
The disposable plastic lighters and ceramic ashtrays feature the 31-year-old logo as well as a copyright symbol and the initials of the Department of Economic Development. Famed graphic designer Milton Glaser, who created the “I ♥ NY” logo for free but does not control the copyright, said he would never have approved the deal.
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One billion people may die of tobacco-related illness this century, almost all of them in developing countries. (…) Tobacco use is a risk factor for six of the world’s eight leading causes of death and causes about one in every 10 deaths of adults now.
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