Audrey Silk

The cigarette tax hike is what finally drove us to launch the "I Smoke, I Vote" write-in campaign for Election 2010. No voting for or against anyone because they'll all -- no matter their party -- thr...

That's incorrect. In this case these ads are covered by the city's General Fund. In other words, every taxpayer is having their taxes used to pay for this. I have the FOIL request reply to prove it....

On July 31, 2009, my organization issued a press release in which we offered store owners signs to hang next to the Dept. of Health mandated signs to counter them. That offer still stands. Please...

That full signature is: Founder, NYC Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment (C.L.A.S.H.)...

Gene, why not be more transparent about who you really are?... an anti-tobacco activist (as even per the NY Times, 2/17/07). A rabid and very active one at that. Posting as just a member of the gen...

Mr. Del Signore, when you call someone a liar please back it up with evidence. As I can for the statements I make: 1. Monica A. Fisher et al. "Age and Race/Ethnicity-Gender Predictors of Denying Sm...

As a reporter himself, I'm sure the author of this piece, John Del Signore, is familiar with the shenanigans that go on between taking comments from a source for an article and what ends up in the fin...

The cost argument doesn't wash. Let's see, according to that argument, "I'm footing the bill for smokers!" "I'm footing the bill for the obese!" "I'm footing the bill for [fill in the blank]!" Bef...

My organization has argued this slippery slope-come true before it occured. And we plan to take on the also mentioned anti-smoker signs the DOH will force on store owners at no compensation to them f...

Being a retired member of the NYPD I'm entirely sympathetic to the deaths of these two men in what's probably even a deeper way than most civilians. But I am also an anti-anti-smoking advocate that s...