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-Land of the Free
Massachusetts town's hearing on proposed tobacco ban ends abruptly
2014-11-15
[Washington Post] Westminster, Mass. -- a town about 52 miles from Boston -- might make history.

Or ... it might not, if a public hearing was any indication.

The community of less than 8,000 residents is considering prohibiting the sale of tobacco products, which would apparently be the first such ban in the nation. Westminster residents gathered on Wednesday night to discuss the proposal, which would ban the sale of items such as cigarettes, chewing tobacco and electronic cigarettes.

The crowd grew so unruly that Andrea Crete, the town's Board of Health chairwoman, abruptly ended the event, according to the Boston Herald. Just four people spoke, and opponents of the measure sang as the hearing shut down. Crete left with a police escort, newspapers reported.

"Nobody's respecting the ground rules," Crete said, according to the Herald. "We have to close it. The clapping. Everybody talking. Nobody is showing any respect to the board or to other people when they're talking. We cannot have that. It's going to spin out of control."
Posted by:Fred

#13  Oh, there's a cure, B, but I'm pretty sure it's illegal to do it to them.
Posted by: Barbara   2014-11-15 21:57  

#12  An incurable mental disease I might add.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-11-15 18:58  

#11  Nobody quite so puritanical as Progressives on a crusade. Remember the 18th Amendment? Progressives, just like the 17th (ripped Senate away from the states) and 16th (Income tax) amendments.

Progressivism is a mental disease.
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-11-15 18:53  

#10  "Nobody is showing any respect to the board"

That's because you don't deserve any respect.

Idiots.
Posted by: Barbara   2014-11-15 16:37  

#9  Not very respectful to tell ppl what they can or cannot ingest.
Just imagine what is gonna happen if you take all those ppls cigs away. I know after about 1 day I feel like ripping someones head off.
Posted by: chris   2014-11-15 13:43  

#8  Nobody is showing any respect to the board or the escapees from the insane asylum either for that matter - could it be these are one and the same ?

- Well NAZI are alive and well in Westminster Massachusetts
Posted by: Titus Angavick9195   2014-11-15 10:59  

#7  Of course a store might sell cigarette boxes for 3 dollars and the actual cigarettes are free. Free Chewing tobacco but the snuff can is $2. Actually they may be able to avoid tobacco taxes and have really low pics on boxes and cans.
Posted by: Airandee   2014-11-15 10:44  

#6  Missed a good opportunity to trash the place.
Posted by: Raj   2014-11-15 10:29  

#5  Big Tobacco strikes again.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-11-15 08:22  

#4  "We cannot have that. It's going to spin out of control."
Typical leftist bureaucrat. It's going against me, so stop the voting! Technical difficulties. We'll try again, say at 3am in the middle of a howling blizzard.
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-11-15 07:58  

#3  Smoke Break! Light em if you got em!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2014-11-15 05:36  

#2  Long past time to teach some people to mind their own business.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-11-15 03:49  

#1  Nothing has been the same since Ted Kennedy died. They've all gone unhinged in the sanctuary of the damned. Close the borders, allow no one in or out.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-11-15 02:33  

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