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Oct. 10th, 2003 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
I saw this commercial a little while ago, by the people who brought us the no-smoking-in-bars law:
There's this guy talking to his friend, complaining about how, now that nobody can smoke in restaurants or bars, they'll clear out, "just like the subway when they made that rule" and now it'll all be empty. When he's done, you see the screen saying that since it didn't happen when they banned smoking in the subways, it won't happen now.
Nice enough, except there's a glaring logical error, namely that subways aren't restaurants or bars. We don't CHOOSE to ride the trains, we do, however, choose to go out to eat instead of staying home. If you want to smoke when you eat, you can go out to Jersey, try riding the trains in Jersey just to smoke during your commute! It's not a comprable situation at all!
Honestly, the public service commercials in New York are pretty bad, it's like after 9/11, they made a big deal in all the commercials about the new marathon motto: United We Run. (How's that for a non sequitur?)
There's this guy talking to his friend, complaining about how, now that nobody can smoke in restaurants or bars, they'll clear out, "just like the subway when they made that rule" and now it'll all be empty. When he's done, you see the screen saying that since it didn't happen when they banned smoking in the subways, it won't happen now.
Nice enough, except there's a glaring logical error, namely that subways aren't restaurants or bars. We don't CHOOSE to ride the trains, we do, however, choose to go out to eat instead of staying home. If you want to smoke when you eat, you can go out to Jersey, try riding the trains in Jersey just to smoke during your commute! It's not a comprable situation at all!
Honestly, the public service commercials in New York are pretty bad, it's like after 9/11, they made a big deal in all the commercials about the new marathon motto: United We Run. (How's that for a non sequitur?)
