NYC busts shop owner for ashtray
A business owner who left an ashtray sitting out in his shop has been fined $6,000 by New York City’s health inspector, who was enforcing the city’s tough, new anti-smoking law.
On the ticket, health inspectors M. Dundas and S. Holloway reported: “One (1) ashtray with cigarette butt, and ashes, was seen on the counter of the establishment.”
The ashtray was there, he said, because a customer came in the store with a cigarette. Rather than make her go back outside, Arno let her snuff it out in the ashtray.
