When some people gaze into their crystal balls to get a glimpse of the future, they see visions of food tubes, turkish cabs, or President Donald Trump. But when Mayor Bloomberg accesses his precognitive abilities, he only conjures two misty visions: a NYC landscape filled with trees...and children suing their parents over secondhand smoke.
That's the future he laid out on the John Gambling radio show yesterday morning. The two were discussing a new CDC report that predicted that the rest of the country might soon be taking after Bloomberg's vigorous anti-smoking campaign—there could be smoking bans in workplaces, bars and restaurants across the nation as soon as 2020.
He said rich parents had the most to be concerned over: "What I would worry about is my kids suing me down the road...I mean, you know, 'I came down with cancer, Mommy, Daddy,' particularly if Mommy and Daddy is wealthy. Something to go after," the mayor said. We imagine that those poor rich parents will have to become online cigarette bootleggers to get through the rough times.
