{"id":3031,"date":"2008-01-03T06:56:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T14:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/01\/see_thats_what_happens_when_you_turn_your_back_on_your_party.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T14:50:25","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T19:50:25","slug":"see_thats_what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/see_thats_what.html","title":{"rendered":"See, That&#8217;s What Happens When You Turn Your Back On Your Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/03\/nyregion\/03smoke.html?ex=1357102800&#038;en=5f610c7ea88c0a88&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">teen smoking goes decreases across the five boroughs<\/a>, the rate in Republican stronghold Staten Island stays <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/advance\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/1199364308112930.xml&#038;coll=1\">double the city average<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Higher taxes, graphic advertisements, and a crackdown on delis and bodegas are responsible for the plummeting smoking rate among city teens &#8212; but Staten Island youngsters are still puffing away at a pace almost double that of the rest of the city, data released yesterday shows.<\/p>\n<p>Borough teens have the highest smoking rate in the entire city, with 14.7 percent of adolescents here smoking cigarettes, according to a report released by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other city officials yesterday<\/p>\n<p>Overall, only about 8.5 percent of city teens identified themselves as smokers in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been smoking since I was 11; too much stress with the family,&#8221; said Hajredin Kari, 15, of the Park Hill section of Clifton, as he smoked a butt across the street from New Dorp High School yesterday afternoon. &#8220;This is the best thing. I just smoke two cigarettes one by one, and I&#8217;m money for the rest of the day.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michael Bloomberg, turning his back on Staten Island teens &#8212; wrong for Staten Island, wrong for America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As teen smoking goes decreases across the five boroughs, the rate in Republican stronghold Staten Island stays double the city average: Higher taxes, graphic advertisements, and a crackdown on delis and bodegas are responsible for the plummeting smoking rate among city teens &#8212; but Staten Island youngsters are still puffing away at a pace almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}