A small town in Massachusetts is considering banning the sale of all tobacco products. Resident could still consume the products, but they would need to go elsewhere to purchase them. This is an effort to fight Big Tobacco.
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Massachusetts Town Could Be First in the U.S. to Ban All Tobacco Sales - NBC News
A small town in Massachusetts has become the latest battleground against Big Tobacco. Residents of Westminster will get the chance Wednesday night to debate a health board proposal to ban the sale of all tobacco and nicotine products — potentially making it the first community in the country to snuff out everything from e-cigarettes to flavored cigars. But while public health groups are lauding the proposal, smokers, their advocates and shopkeepers alike are fuming.
"What I find terrifying is government overstepping,” resident and nonsmoker Jennifer Shenk said during a town government meeting Monday, according to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. Westminster’s Board of Health isn’t expected to vote on the issue until after Dec. 1 — the last day for residents to submit public comments.
Shopkeeper Brian Vincent, whose country store on Main Street sells $100,000 worth of tobacco products a year, has collected at least 900 signatures to fight the ban. Vincent said smokers will simply make their purchases in other towns, and probably buy their gas and groceries there as well. “Having other adults decide what legal item we’re not allowed to consume just makes you wonder: If this passes, what could be next? Sugar? Bacon?” he said.
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Its much better than excessive taxes that basically take advantage of drug addicts.A small town in Massachusetts is considering banning the sale of all tobacco products. Resident could still consume the products, but they would need to go elsewhere to purchase them. This is an effort to fight Big Tobacco.
Would you support this?
Massachusetts Town Could Be First in the U.S. to Ban All Tobacco Sales - NBC News
A small town in Massachusetts has become the latest battleground against Big Tobacco. Residents of Westminster will get the chance Wednesday night to debate a health board proposal to ban the sale of all tobacco and nicotine products — potentially making it the first community in the country to snuff out everything from e-cigarettes to flavored cigars. But while public health groups are lauding the proposal, smokers, their advocates and shopkeepers alike are fuming.
"What I find terrifying is government overstepping,” resident and nonsmoker Jennifer Shenk said during a town government meeting Monday, according to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. Westminster’s Board of Health isn’t expected to vote on the issue until after Dec. 1 — the last day for residents to submit public comments.
Shopkeeper Brian Vincent, whose country store on Main Street sells $100,000 worth of tobacco products a year, has collected at least 900 signatures to fight the ban. Vincent said smokers will simply make their purchases in other towns, and probably buy their gas and groceries there as well. “Having other adults decide what legal item we’re not allowed to consume just makes you wonder: If this passes, what could be next? Sugar? Bacon?” he said.
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I don't agree...Its much better than excessive taxes that basically take advantage of drug addicts.
I don't agree...
excessive taxes could give incentive for the drug addicts to get help.
There is no constitutional right to cigarettes.So this idea that it is a violation of liberty is absurd.A ban is certainly more reasonable than a lets take advantage of junkies tax.And I think this law is in violation of liberty. I am not a smoker and I am in support of public smoking bans/etc..... but I think this goes too far.
Smoking is disgusting. It is an awful habit that does nothing but take the money of addicts and then gives them horrible deaths. I hate it when people smoke around me, even outside if you smoke within 10 feet of me I have to walk away. The second hand smoke gives me a headache and makes it harder for me to breathe.
This does not mean that we should ban the sale of these products. This law would be an overstep. However, I do believe that a pubic smoking ban would be justified.
A small town in Massachusetts is considering banning the sale of all tobacco products. Resident could still consume the products, but they would need to go elsewhere to purchase them. This is an effort to fight Big Tobacco.
Would you support this?
Massachusetts Town Could Be First in the U.S. to Ban All Tobacco Sales - NBC News
A small town in Massachusetts has become the latest battleground against Big Tobacco. Residents of Westminster will get the chance Wednesday night to debate a health board proposal to ban the sale of all tobacco and nicotine products — potentially making it the first community in the country to snuff out everything from e-cigarettes to flavored cigars. But while public health groups are lauding the proposal, smokers, their advocates and shopkeepers alike are fuming.
"What I find terrifying is government overstepping,” resident and nonsmoker Jennifer Shenk said during a town government meeting Monday, according to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. Westminster’s Board of Health isn’t expected to vote on the issue until after Dec. 1 — the last day for residents to submit public comments.
Shopkeeper Brian Vincent, whose country store on Main Street sells $100,000 worth of tobacco products a year, has collected at least 900 signatures to fight the ban. Vincent said smokers will simply make their purchases in other towns, and probably buy their gas and groceries there as well. “Having other adults decide what legal item we’re not allowed to consume just makes you wonder: If this passes, what could be next? Sugar? Bacon?” he said.
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Its much better than excessive taxes that basically take advantage of drug addicts.
Its much better than excessive taxes that basically take advantage of drug addicts.
One and two will never happen.Because drug addicts want their drug of choice and governments never spend the money on what they say they will spend it on regarding tobacco taxes.Even if by chance they git cancer and the money they put in paid towards the medical care. The costs of the treatment and other medical care associated with cancer will far exceed what they put it.I see nothing wrong with taxing the living hell out of drugs.
These people as they get older inevitably will be struck with some sort of cancer/impairment that requires expensive treatments and if they don't have the money they become a drain on society.
I see the massive taxing of drugs as:
#1 an incentive to not get into them in the first place
#2 paying for your super expensive treatments that taxpayer money goes in to early
Are you conservative or not?
I thought conservatives were against excessive taxes.
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