Tuesday, October 28 2008
The future of Churchill’s cigar bar, as well as those of the other 10 cigar and hookah bars here is uncertain, thanks to a proposal by the Boston Public Health Commission, which contains some of the nation’s strictest smoking regulations, banning the sale of cigarettes at drugstores and on college campuses, and shutting down the 10 establishments where smoking is permitted, by 2013, The New York Times reported.
The goal is to discourage young people from buying tobacco products, to keep tobacco out of stores that promote health, and to protect employees exposed to secondhand smoke, according to the report. The city’s Board of Health will vote on the regulations on Nov. 13, and if approved, they will take effect within 60 days, the paper reported.
"Should tobacco be treated as any other consumer good? No," Barbara Ferrer, director of the Board of Health, told the Times. "We don’t sell guns everywhere, we don’t sell alcohol everywhere and we don’t need to be selling tobacco everywhere. They’re all dangerous products, and they all require regulation."
Vote on Boston Tobacco Ban Looming continues...
