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East Harlem Neighborhood Becomes New York City's First Smoke-free Block With Experiment

Where's a New York smoker to go? Not E. 110th St. between Lexington and Third Aves. The bustling street - home to the East Harlem Asthma Center and several businesses - became the city's first "smoke-free" block this week with a novel approach to do away with secondhand smoke. Most residents and workers along the street have agreed to kick themselves to the curb - 15 feet away from their building entrance, which puts them in the street - if they have to light up. The only holdout was the U.S. Post Office branch, where many workers smoke, organizers said. Signs in Spanish and English reading, "NO SMOKING - SUPPORTERS OF 110th ST. SMOKE FREE BLOCK" went up in store windows and will be placed on lampposts on the block this month. "Kids are coming here to the clinic all day long and have had to walk near people smoking cigarettes all along the block. We are telling smokers to go elsewhere," said asthma center Director Dr. Betty Perez-Rivera, who launched the idea with the Manhattan Smoke-Free Partnership and hopes to get other East Harlem blocks to sign on. "We want to make sure our kids are in a smoke-free environment." East Harlem has the highest asthma rates in the country, affecting one in four kids who live there. Up to 30% of households with asthmatic children include a family member who smokes. Fifteen businesses - including the Savoy Bakery, Young's Fish Market, Expo Liquor and RAZA Records - as well as The Mirada condominium and a neighborhood public library branch agreed to join the voluntary project. Organizers said it took some doing to persuade store owners who sell cheap smokes to participate, as they worried they would lose customers. But eventually, they signed on, getting their employees who smoke cigarettes to not huddle against the building or smoke cigarettes on E. 110th St. Only the Hell Gate Post Office branch in the middle of the block has not yet signed on. It was a tougher sell, advocates said, because so many of the workers smoke. "I'll just have to light up on another block," said a 35-year-old letter carrier who has been smoking cigarettes since she was 15, adding that she couldn't give her name because her co-workers were already on her case. "I'm going with the flow." Others on the block were not as mellow that the busy thoroughfare declared itself a smoke-free zone. "This is ridiculous! Ridiculous!" fumed Aulene Beckford, a 48-year-old home health aide who puffed on a Newport as she waited across the street from the asthma center for her elderly client to emerge. "You can't smoke cigarettes anywhere anymore. It should just be illegal." Referring to Mayor Bloomberg's recent squeeze on the pufferati - banning smoking cigarettes at public beaches and parks - Beckford added: "I know it's bad to smoke cigarettes but he's bringing Communist China to New York City. Have some heart. There is too much stress. We need a reliever." Security guard Marvin King, who was hanging out in front of Dolce Vita's pizza place dragging on his cigarette, added: "I'm smoking cigarettes since I'm 20. This is never gonna work." Still, the news was a breath of fresh air to many local residents. "If this can help other people realize that cigarette smoking cigarettes is a killer, why not try it?" said Lanfert Logan, a former smoker and asthma sufferer who lives a few blocks away with his wife and two sons. "Why should other people walking down the street have to breathe your toxins?"

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