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2014-11-10 -Land of the Free

Massachusetts Town Weighs Nation's 1st Tobacco Ban

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Posted by Fred 2014-11-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 So then the turn around and legalize smoking pot?

Posted by 3dc 2014-11-10 08:27|| 2014-11-10 08:27|| Front Page Top

#2 ...and outlaw e-cigs that use water vapor to deliver nicotine. The New Puritanism (guess from who?).

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-11-10 08:41|| 2014-11-10 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 According to my pulmonologist, the problem with cigarettes is the combustion products, not the nicotine. So there is no real reason to ban the e-cigs, except to assert power.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-11-10 09:23|| 2014-11-10 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Try enforcing the bans on heroin and meth first.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2014-11-10 11:19|| 2014-11-10 11:19|| Front Page Top

#5 In other words, the gas stations just outside the town's borders are going to be doing gangbuster business. Has the town government considered the cost of hiring extra police to sit outside the parking lots, waiting to follow home those who bought cigarettes there to see if they are township residents engaging in the smuggling of contraband? Here in Cincinnati people go just across the river to Kentucky to buy alcohol and such, but they're easy enough to pick out by the state license plate; in Massachusetts the police won't have that simple cue, and there are lots of things to buy at gas stations other than cigarettes.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-11-10 11:56|| 2014-11-10 11:56|| Front Page Top

#6 tw, I don't think they are banning the possession of tobacco (yet). They are just banning the sale of tobacco in town. This would have some effect in a large city like New York, where it is difficult to get out of town. In a small town, people will just drive the two miles to get tobacco.

The reason cops track out of state liquor purchases is that the state loses revenue.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-11-10 12:06|| 2014-11-10 12:06|| Front Page Top

#7 What about the fact that adults do not need the government too tell them everything they can ingest into their body.

Posted by chris 2014-11-10 15:59|| 2014-11-10 15:59|| Front Page Top

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