A_Smokers_Injustice

A Smokers Injustice A Smoker’s Injustice On March 30, 2003 a smoking ban will go into affect in restaurants, bars, and public places throughout NYC. A ban on public smoking lead by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an ex-smoker, has intentions of improving the health of employees by segregating smokers from about 13,000 bars and restaurants in New York City. The ban is a modernized version of unjust law as described by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In an attempt to save lives, Mayor Bloomberg is taking an addiction and marking it illegal and in doing so, he is segregating man from man, an idea which was thought to be thrown out the window after the 1960s. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. states in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” that an unjust law is “a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal.”(King Jr. 408) With the public smoking ban, Mayor Bloomberg is forcing smokers to either quit smoking or get up, go outside, smoke, and then come back to join their party. Mayor Bloomberg, an ex-smoker, would not be pleased if such a law was enforced law, smoking, mayor, ban, segregation, jr, unjust, smokers, smoke, people, public, now, new, bloomberg, together, made, king, bar, smoker, restaurants, one, non-smoking, martin, luther, just, instead, health, hand, dr, city, cigarette, bars, 408, times, segregating, places