New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson was able to quit his pack a day smoking habit in 2010 when preparing for the NYC Marathon and he is currently prepping to quit vaping and is considering entering the race again, The NY Post reported.
By: Justin Credible
“I realized I wasn’t actually going to be able to meet that goal unless I quit smoking, so I was running like 30 to 40 miles a week, and that’s what kept me off cigarettes for a year,” he told the NY Post.
The 37-year-old pol admitted he uses nearly an entire mint-flavored Juul pod a day — equivalent to just under a pack of smokes, the Post reported.
“What kept me off of cigarettes for a year was my marathon training and then afterward feeling good. And then I fell off the wagon and starting smoking again and smoked until May of this year,” he told Post reporters.
Since May he has been vaping the popular Juul brand e-cigarettes. Johnson is giving himself until July to quit vaping. A controversial NYC ban on flavored vape brands goes into effect at that point.
“NY Nanny state politics strikes again, adults won’t be able to enjoy flavored vape, but NYC happily allows illegal immigrants into the City, breaking literal federal law. NYC politics is bordering on psychotic , they make a lame excuse that flavored vape is marketed towards minors, there is no evidence this is true, New Yorkers who don’t rebel, deserve what they get, total tyranny and a new black market in flavored vape”, Jared Evan a libertarian leaning political analyst told TJV recently.
Meanwhile Corey Johnson, is against the next step, banning menthol cigarettes. Career charlatan, anti-Semite and tax evader, Al Sharpton and Johnson both stand against the menthol ban.
“The menthol cigarette ban proposal is simply out of control, sadly I have to agree with Sharpton on this, he mentioned Eric Garner who was killed by police during that whole incident while he was selling loose cigarettes, Sharpton is correct, this will create a huge black market, but why Sharpton has any political clout is beyond reason & why does Corey Johnson need Sharpton to explain his to him? “Jared Evan went on in a rant to TJV reporters.
Corey Johnson who is seriously considering a run for mayor, recently stepped to plate for former Mayor Bloomberg, after de Blasio attacked “Mike” Bloomberg.
“There, I think, is typically a level of graciousness that occurs,” Johnson said at a news conference., covered by leftist leaning NY. Daily News “Now that may change when someone decides to run for president. “When Mayor de Blasio was running for president, I didn’t see Mayor Bloomberg criticizing him.”
