Posted on 06/05/2019 12:58:29 PM PDT by Red Badger
June 5 (UPI) -- One of the wealthiest communities in California has become the first city in the United States to ban the sale of tobacco products, after councilors approved a new law that will take effect in 2021.
The city of Beverly Hills passed the new law Tuesday. While it doesn't bar smoking inside city limits, it prohibits any business from selling tobacco products beginning Jan. 21, 2021. The new ordinance exempts existing cigar lounges and will allow hotels to sell such products to guests.
Councilors said they will consider hardship exemptions for businesses that can prove the law will create an undue burden, and review the ban's impact on tourism in three years.
The new law is the latest effort by the city to improve the health of those who live and work there. It already has a program that provides a smoking cessation program free of charge to Beverly Hills residents and workers. The city said it's also collecting information about the effects of smoking and secondhand smoke in Beverly Hills city limits.
Beverly Hills already bans smoking in some public places.
Some retailers argue a ban on sales will simply shift them to neighboring jurisdictions like Los Angeles and West Hollywood. The National Association of Tobacco Outlets said businesses that sell tobacco may see their income fall as much as 45 percent.
Does anyone on the planet think that this will stop smoking in Beverly Hills? Or, does it simply raise the transactions cost of buying cigarettes?
Eff them nanny-statists.
Including pot?
I didn’t think so.
And marijuana?
Tobacco smoking, evil. Pot smoking, cool. Free needles to heroin users and magic mushrooms approved.
I get it, sure.
Ping.
But, of course, selling, smoking and advertising marijuana is just fine and good, because ‘it’s natural!”
More empty headed virtue signaling that drives more business away. Expect meat vendors to be targeted next, except for Muslims.
The state becomes more Taliban like every year.
They exempted tobacco lounges and hotels.
Sounds like the tobacco lounges and/or hotels bought the council.
Let me guess, they don’t ban weed, drugs, homeless bums pissing and pooping...
So why is weed good and tobacco bad?
I remember a much older version of that song......................
Oakland legalized magic mushrooms today. But menthol cigarettes were banned at the beginning of the year.
So if I’m tripping on shrooms and feel the urge for a Newport I have to drive to San Leandro
Tobacco cartels won’t cut off your head and dump your body on Rodeo Drive....................
LOL, really?
I’m just gonna park here in this thread and wait.....
Tex Williams
That’s ONE WAY to eliminate the competition.............
Yes, I believe it was..................
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