slate.com - 12/15/2008
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The health police have crossed another line. Four months ago, they banned new fast-food restaurants in a 32-square-mile area of Los Angeles. In that case, they crossed the line from restricting food for kids to restricting it for adults . They also extended the practice of health zoning from ...
boston.com - 12/12/2008
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boston.com —
Boston health regulators banned cigarette sales in drugstores
and on college campuses yesterday, giving the city some...
of the most stringent antismoking laws in the nation. The rules, approved unanimously by the Boston Public Health Commission, mean ...
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Hub enacts strict ban on tobacco sales - The Boston Globe
sandmonkey.org - 12/16/2008
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sandmonkey.org —
You know, this no longer surprises me: The
Boston Public Health Commission has just banned the sale...
of all tobacco products at colleges. Not high schools. Colleges. Anti-smoking activists are ecstatic. "Boston has taken another step that puts it in the forefront in the United States ...
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Saletan reacts to Boston banning the sale of tobacco products at colleges: I detest smoking. But if there's no secondhand smoke and no secondhand driving effects, what are the grounds for telling a 20-year-old college student—let alone a 25-year-old professional school student—that tobacco is off limits? And if that kind of paternalism can be extended so easily from minors to 25-year-olds, who's next? ...
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Overlawyered —
... “The Boston Public Health Commission has just banned the sale of all tobacco products at colleges. Not high schools. Colleges.” [Saletan, Slate] ...
Moving towards a divided world
Rantings of a Sandmonkey —
You know, this no longer surprises me:
The Boston Public Health Commission has just banned the sale of all tobacco products at colleges. Not high schools. Colleges.
Anti-smoking activists are ecstatic. "Boston has taken another step
that puts it in the forefront in the United States in protecting people
against secondhand smoke," says the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. But the Boston regulations don't just restrict smoking. They forbid
the sale of "any substance containing tobacco leaf, ...
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