Thursday, December 18 2008
By ANGELA CARBONE (
The Republican)
The Board of Health Wednesday voted 3-0 to make smoking bars, which include cigar bars and hookah bars, illegal.
Donald J. Wilson, tobacco control coordinator with the Massachusetts Municipal Association, said many communities do not have outright bans, although some, such as Amherst, interpret their tobacco use regulations as not permitting them. Others have interpreted their regulations as allowing them because there is no explicit language barring them.
West Side bans smoking bars continues...