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.
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?
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
LOL, really?
I’m just gonna park here in this thread and wait.....
Idiots.
So people will drive a couple of miles to be outside of BH city limits.
I really doubt you’d see a tobacco shop inside the Beverly Hills city limits anyway—this isn’t the heyday of Hollywood!
With all the problems our society faces, this is the sort of thing that our government people focus on.
This is a mirror of what takes place in Sacramento.
We know droughts will come, but do we install desalinization plants? No. We wait and then complain.
We know the population is growing and we’ll need more energy. Do we build infrastructure for the next generation? No. We slam everyone for not turning their cells phones screens darker. We slam them for not setting their air conditioners on 80 during the summer and 60 in the winter.
Our freeways are bulging. We need more lanes. Do they work on that or do they take lanes and using them for empty car pool lanes, or that are used by couples and families.
If our parents and grandparents generation of leadership had acted like today’s leaders do, we’d have lanterns, wood fires, and no electricity. Add to it, no water as well.
Our present leaders are not up to the job. It’s grossly evident.
They don’t want the burgeoning HOMELESS population to get lung cancer.
The feel goodie’s feel they did something to curb the horror of smoking while losing tax revenue.
some locales wont even sell you lighter at safewayy . ‡