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Weestminster, Mass. to ban sales of all tobacco products?
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<blockquote data-quote="idbowman" data-source="post: 394868" data-attributes="member: 2165"><p>Apparently, this has pushed some of the right (IMO) buttons:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/us/disgusted-by-smoking-outraged-by-a-plan-to-ban-tobacco.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Firestorm erupts...</a></p><p></p><p>If you don't want to read the full article, this little bit is encouraging (or at least what passes for encouraging among our little community, these days):</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>"The uproar stems not from a desire by people here to smoke — only 17 percent do (a smidge higher than the statewide average). Many say they have never touched tobacco and find the habit disgusting. Rather, they perceive the ban as a frontal assault on their individual liberties. And they say it would cripple the eight retailers in town who sell tobacco products...</p><p></p><p>...'They’re just taking away everyday freedoms, little by little,' said Nate Johnson, 32, an egg farmer who also works in an auto body shop, as he stood outside the store last week. “This isn’t about tobacco, it’s about control,” he said."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="idbowman, post: 394868, member: 2165"] Apparently, this has pushed some of the right (IMO) buttons: [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/us/disgusted-by-smoking-outraged-by-a-plan-to-ban-tobacco.html?_r=0]Firestorm erupts...[/url] If you don't want to read the full article, this little bit is encouraging (or at least what passes for encouraging among our little community, these days): "The uproar stems not from a desire by people here to smoke — only 17 percent do (a smidge higher than the statewide average). Many say they have never touched tobacco and find the habit disgusting. Rather, they perceive the ban as a frontal assault on their individual liberties. And they say it would cripple the eight retailers in town who sell tobacco products... ...'They’re just taking away everyday freedoms, little by little,' said Nate Johnson, 32, an egg farmer who also works in an auto body shop, as he stood outside the store last week. “This isn’t about tobacco, it’s about control,” he said." [/QUOTE]
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