Posted on 07/16/2008 7:47:50 AM PDT by SmithL
Smokers would find it harder to buy their cigarettes and light up in public under two proposals under consideration by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Mayor Gavin Newsom has proposed prohibiting tobacco sales in pharmacies, including Walgreens and Rite Aid. The city's public health chief said the proposal is modeled after rules in eight provinces in Canada but has not been tried anywhere in the United States.
Supervisor Chris Daly has proposed legislation that would vastly limit areas where people can smoke.
Gone would be smoking in all businesses and bars, which now make an exception for owner-operated ones.
Gone too would be lighting up in taxicabs and rental cars, city-owned vehicles, farmers' markets, common areas of apartment buildings, tourist hotels, tobacco shops, charity bingo games, unenclosed dining areas, waiting areas such as lines at an ATM or movie theater, and anywhere within 20 feet of entrances to private, nonresidential buildings.
Mitch Katz, director of the Department of Public Health, said he strongly supports both measures - even if they are angering business owners who say it's one more example of San Francisco City Hall overstepping its bounds.
"Tobacco remains the No. 1 cause of preventable death in the U.S. - period," he said. "It's government's responsibility to protect people from obvious risks."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
"It's government's responsibility to protect people from obvious risks."
What they mean is "It's government's responsibility to control their lives!
Those folks in S.F have entirely too much time on their hands.
I hope the gummit will save me from me before it’s too late for me.
And where does homosexuality rank with respect to
“preventable deaths”?
What about pot?
Can we still smoke pot in bars and restaurants in the SF area or is that JUST in Amsterdam?
“It’s government’s responsibility to protect people from obvious risks.”
How can you derive THAT from even the most torturous twisting of the Constitution and the writings of our Founding Fathers?
or “obvious risks”.
It will make targeting so much easier.
Gavin Newsom has to be one of the most reprehensible politicians in the United States. I guess sleeping with a top aides and good friend’s wife doesn’t rank up there with things he wants to prevent. Can we expel that city from the union?
San Francisco’s new city motto: Sodomy not Smoking.
Why don’t they just outlaw the cigarette and be done with it?
Sheesh!
This from the city that thinks “smoking butts” is OK.
I'm from the government, and I'm here to protect you from obvious risks.
...I smoked Camel straights for years...finally quit 5 years ago because I was scared of lung cancer...now I got COPD which I never figured on...I always thought it would be the cancer that got me....at least with the COPD I can live with it because it’s not bad yet and I can lose weight/exercise ect...people ought to quit but S.F.is going about it wrong.
Can’t be after the gangs, they have to go after smokers.
Much like Mayor Bloomers in NYC. Crime increasing in every precinct but they do catch ashtrays in restaurants.
Seems every smoker that quits develops something. Perhaps people ought not quit.
Nanny State PING!!!!!!!!!!
And where does homosexuality rank with respect to
“preventable deaths”?
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/msm/resources/factsheets/msm.htm
Thanks for the ping!
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