NEW YORK (AP) — A decade after the city stubbed out smoking in bars and restaurants, Mayor Michael Bloomberg applauded the ban Wednesday as a turning point in a movement to reduce smoking, even as he embarks on a new push to put cigarettes under wraps in local stores.

The ban on smoking in bars, restaurants and other indoor public spaces took effect 10 years ago, toward the beginning of Bloomberg’s tenure and what became a string of efforts to use the law to improve New Yorkers’ health habits, from setting high taxes on cigarettes to trying to limit the size of sugary sodas.

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