Belmont to be first U.S. city to ban all smoking

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[Gabz]

I bet if you polled these clowns, they would think that a 14-year-old girl should be able to get an abortion without parental approval, that the death penalty for murderers is cruel and unusual punishment, and that NAMBLA is a good adult-child "mentoring" program... but by all means don't smoke! That makes you evil! Complete and total idiots.

And they can't see the idiocy of their thinking.

[Reeses]

Will they exempt medical marijuana, or is this only smoking of tobacco?

At work in downtown San Francisco sometimes I go outside to sit on some public steps, relax, and smoke a tobacco pipe. Last week I ran into someone lighting a noxious marijuana roach in broad daylight, not looking out for the police, not a care in the world. After I sat down, within a few minutes a smoking nazi came out furious that I was smoking a pipe. She was not a bit tolerant of others customs, or even polite about it, she wanted me to move. The roach smoker was left alone.

The whole SF Bay area is whacked out like that.

[mowowie]

If you walk down the street smoking in a neighboring town here in my state, Sharon, MA, you'll get a ticket too.

[elkfersupper]

If you walk down the street smoking in a neighboring town here in my state, Sharon, MA, you'll get a ticket too.

It's time to move.

[mowowie]

Yea, It was time to move the day I was born.

[Don W]

Many thanks. I mentioned the aforementioned study (in passing) to my sister, and she went absolutely bug***k on me trying to twist what I was saying into "So you think smoke-filled homes are good for kids?".

The joys of family! < BG >

[Centurion2000]

Belmont is set to make history by becoming the first city in the nation to ban smoking on its streets and almost everywhere else. The Belmont City Council voted unanimously last night to pursue a strict law that will prohibit smoking anywhere in the city except for single-family detached residences. Smoking on the street, in a park and even in one’s car will become illegal and police would have the option of handing out tickets if they catch someone.

Remember when the USA was a free country???

Yep ... not anymore.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[SheLion]

Thanks for the ping!

  

[SheLion]

California Information

Tobacco Taxes

California's excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $0.870
California's excise tax collection for the
fiscal year ending June 2002: $1,074,323,000

Sales tax on tobacco products: 7.25%

Federal excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $0.39
Total federal excise tax collections in fiscal year 2002: $7,512,700,000

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Comparing Excise Taxes on Cigarettes, Beer and Wine 

Number of six-packs of beer that must be sold in California to produce the same state excise tax revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 77.3


Number of bottles of wine that must be sold in California to produce the same state excise tax revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 219.6

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California Smokers' Contributions to the State Economy - 2004

In 2003, California smokers comprised only 16.8% of the adult population in the state. Here is what they already pay because they choose to buy a legal product:
· Smokers Pay Excise Taxes $1,030,057,000
· Smokers Pay Sales Taxes $329,023,000
· Smokers Pay Tobacco Settlement Payments $802,400,000
TOTAL: $2,161,480,000

[SheLion]

If they can to it to smokers, there's other segments they can toy with just as easily. I'm not a smoker and I think this is absurd.

Lawmakers: =

Related in the sense of "Now that we got you to do something we want, it's easy to force you to do everything we want!"

[Godebert]

"Where is Belmont? I want to move there."

The first thing I did after reading your post was to check your location. Yup.......that explains it. Maybe you should just move to France instead.

[Raycpa]

Yep, smokers sure are making progress with their private property rights arguments. Any day now and the tide will turn.

[metesky]

Thank You for submitting your Vote!
We asked: Is the city of Belmont right in moving toward a smoke ban for the entire city except single-family homes?
Poll Results
Opinion		Graph		Votes
Yes, smoking is a bad habit and causes health issues.				14%
No, it's a person's right to smoke.				86%
Total Votes: 2578

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Fascists, nazis are in power. This is what "liberalism" gets us.

[xowboy]

Those who would give up FREEDOM in the pursuit of HEALTH deserves neither!!!

[Wolfie]

This ban will also have to include pot and crack smoking as well I would assume, smoking is smoking after all.

Not to worry. The DEA has that covered already, backed up by 60-odd years of jurisprudence. Which is why tobacco users are now in the cross-hairs.

[libertarian27]

So, have they banned the sale of tobacco in all Belmont's businesses. Or are they just banning the smoker?

Belmont - "America's Premier Gulag"

[Neoliberalnot]

"I think gay sex is already illegal in public."

Then you ain't been to San Fransicko.

[SheLion]

Thanks for posting the poll figures, metesky.

I voted this morning and the no's were way up there then. So, this is good.