You should be able to acknowledge such a complaint but refute it by showing where the right to clean air and public health outweighs the right to smoke
John Fetterman had the right idea when asked about a Zyn crackdown, responding, Im going to err on the side of more freedom and personal choices and I made the same argument when I wanted to legalize marijuana. Other Democrats should follow his example
"They're not trivial cancers, by any means." The research team found the risk was particularly strong for people who were current smokers, as opposed to people who had quit or never taken up the habit
Nicotine withdrawal symptoms last for 2-4 weeks, but there are cases where symptoms continue for months
The last chart plots the daily returns of the index, which clearly indicates the periods with lower volatility, when returns are small (2017, 2021, and mid-2023 to mid-2024) and higher volatility, when returns spike in both directions (COVID outbreak 2020, inflation surge, and geopolitical risk increase in 2022, and the most recent period of market uncertainty in April 2025)
It forms the latest step in an ever lengthening litany of health measures that most New Yorkers have approved, though some have decried as turning their beloved city into a nanny state
