Keep telling yourself that, Bloomy.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg claims that his people eventually love him for the rules he imposes on the city.
“After New York City banned smoking, which we got a lot of grief about, I will say — I got a lot of one-fingered waves, as I would describe them, when I marched by bars on St. Patrick’s Day, for example,” Bloomberg said yesterday on CNN.
“Today, you march by a bar in St. Patrick’s Day, and everybody seems to love you. And because of what New York did, I think it’s fair to say most cities in America, all of Western Europe, virtually all of Latin America have now gone smoke-free.”
Bloomberg’s latest effort is to mandate that tobacco products are kept out of consumers’ view at retail stores.