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New York Smoking Ban Being Fought by 'Home-Grown' Rebellion
The rebel crop consists of 100 potted plants lined up in the Brooklyn garden of Audrey Silk, a sort of smokers' guerrilla leader who intends to fight the mayor to the last puff.
Silk, a chain-smoking former police officer of 46, says each crop of baccy produces about 400 packs of cigarettes and -- unlike the $12-15 store packs in the city -- not a penny goes into Bloomberg's tax coffers.
"This is called 'Screw You Bloomberg Garden'," Silk says with a mischievous look.
The mayor, a billionaire former smoker pressing to make New York healthier, means business.
Last month he signed a law extending the smoking ban already in offices, bars and restaurants to include swaths of the outdoors.
When it takes effect in May the law will prohibit lighting up in parks, beaches and even busy gathering places like Manhattan's Times Square -- taking the ban within flirtation distance of forbidding cigarettes in the street.
City officials estimate that almost a million of New York's 8.4 million people smoke, causing untold health damage, annoyance to non-smokers and a mess.
"Smoking in parks and beaches not only harms people trying to enjoy these recreational facilities, it also causes a litter problem that harms the beauty of our parks," Bloomberg said.
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