Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em: Westminster Won’t Ban Tobacco

The Boston Globe ^ | 11/19/2014 | Nicole Leonard

[Bettyprob]

There’s a time and place for everything, but that isn’t the case for a small Massachusetts town that could have become the first municipality in the nation to ban tobacco sales.

The Westminster Board of Health withdrew its proposal to ban all tobacco sales on Wednesday after receiving criticism and outrage from the audience at a meeting last week.

Board of health members Peter Munro and Ed Simoncini voted against the ban while Chairwoman Andrea Crete voted to keep the proposal for consideration, reported the Boston Globe.

“It is obvious the town is against it and therefore I am against it,” Simoncini told the Globe of the proposal.

[Bettyprob]

The frugal ones there would be driving to New Hampshire to purchase cigarettes anyways.

[mylife]

Bingo, no sales tax.

[allblues]

This lifelong nonsmoker says, “Bravo, Westminster citizens”.

[Yashcheritsiy]

And this, on a small scale, is how you beat the cultural Marxists.

[Boomer]

Control freaks are always a pain whether it’s tobacco, guns, sugar, or whatever the next boogie man to them is.

[WKUHilltopper]

Now, they need to ban the totalitarians in their health dept and quit paying for these jack booted punks.