Now This is Country Living: Homegrown Tobacco
The Times profiles one Audrey Silk of Marine Park, a retired cop who grows her own tobacco at home and is “the founder of New York City Clash (Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment), a smokers’ rights group.” Although growing your own tobacco for personal consumption is legal, Silk “said that she worried that antismoking advocates…
The Times profiles one Audrey Silk of Marine Park, a retired cop who grows her own tobacco at home and is “the founder of New York City Clash (Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment), a smokers’ rights group.” Although growing your own tobacco for personal consumption is legal, Silk “said that she worried that antismoking advocates and the Bloomberg administration, which pushed to ban smoking in restaurants and bars, would make homegrown tobacco their next target. ‘We fear that the antismokers are so hysterical that if they start finding that people are doing this, they would craft a law to make it illegal,’ Ms. Silk said. ‘I’m waiting for the black helicopters to start flying over my yard.'” Meanwhile, the owner of the Mississippi-based company that provides Silk with seeds “was not surprised to learn that the Golden Seal tobacco had done well in the Brooklyn sunshine” because of the plant’s resiliency.
Now in Brooklyn, Homegrown Tobacco: Local, Rebellious and Tax Free [NY Times]
Photo by Mickki.
At least the taxes collected may help pay for her Emphysema care down the road. Not the collective tax payers have to pay for her habit.
No one said you should “hug a banker” – the only point is to show that the “danger” = justification for retirement at 40 for cops is ridiculous.
Bankers dont deserve or need hugs but it is non-deniable that EVERY major terrorist attack in modern U.S. history except Oklahoma City (since 1900) has taken place on Wall Street (1920) or within a few hundred feet (1975 Francaus Tavern, 1993 WTC, 2001 WTC). With a loss of life to far more “wall streeters” than cops in EVERY line-of-duty death in the entire history of NYPD (1806). SO WHAT except to say that the “risk” of being a cop doesnt justify a pension system that allows the average male to collect a TAX-FREE pension and benefits for approximately as many years as long as the work necessary to earn it.
“Sorry I meant to add on 9/11 for the 2016 “wall streeters” who died doing there job.”
They died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Cops and firefighters died trying to save them, you ungrateful pr**k.
yeah – i’m gonna go hug a banker for their fearless service!! putting their life on the line everyday for the good of the people.
Now I’ve seen it all.
Glad you find THE FACTS so amusing
Switch from the union “defined benefit” plans (where no matter how little you put in, you are guaranteed 60,000 a year in pension)
to the private industry standard of “defined contribution”
where you get out what you put in over the years.
“BTW far more “wall streeters” died (2016) doing there jobs than all the NYC cops who EVER lost there lives in the line of duty (780). Not that is relevant anyway.”
HAHAHAAHA – thanks, now i have to explain to my coworkers why i’m hysterically laughing.
that’s really good.
Sorry I meant to add on 9/11 for the 2016 “wall streeters” who died doing there job.