Posted on 05/02/2008 3:13:38 PM PDT by Califreak
SAN FRANCISCO (Map, News) - San Francisco would become the first city in the nation to ban the sale of tobacco in pharmacies if legislation that was quietly introduced by Mayor Gavin Newsom is approved.
If the Board of Supervisors adopts the legislation, hundreds of pharmacies in The City would have to stop selling tobacco products — including cigarettes, cigars, pipes and chewing tobacco — as soon as October.
“This is a sensible measure to deal with health problems before they start, and it’s consistent with our prevention-focused efforts such as Healthy San Francisco and Shape Up SF,” Newsom said.
A violation would carry steep fines, ranging from $100 to $1,000.
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Well if the Mayor runs the Health Care plan he should also regulate personal behavior. That’s Socialism baby!
Sales of the patch, at drugstores, soar !
... and free medical marijuana to snitches!
Can you buy ammo there ?
>Can you buy ammo there ?<
You’re funny!
But, you can step out on the sidewalk in front of those pharmacies and buy marijuana......DUH
Walgreens, by selling cigarettes is simply insuring future sales of cancer and cardiac drugs.
A sound business plan.
I think tobacco is the least of the health worries in the homo city.
Stan's Fag Disco is one city I never saw the appeal of. I have been there four times and to me, it is just a theme park for the smug latte left. Lots of other cities (including Buffalo NY) have nice victorian architecture, and, sorry, but LA has better restaurants. Tied with Seattle for the most overrated city in the US.
This turkey is probably going to run for president in a few years.
They’re not allowed to talk about that health risk.
You can be quite certain that the major drugstore chains will support this because small, independent drugstores rely more on tobacco sales than the big ones. Here in Canada they banned tobacco sales in drugstores about ten years ago with no opposition from the county’s largest drugstore chain- even though the chain was owned by Canada’s largest tobacco company. The tobacco ban all but wiped out the independents but the two largest chains are flourishing.
Interesting.
“Can you buy ammo there ?”
Yes High Bridge Arms in Bernal Heights. Last gun shop in the city
Mayor must have been paid off by the party waiting with a huge baseball glove to absorb the business. Mayor equity owner in the enterprise? One wonders.
When I was in high school, I worked in a small independent drug store and we sold cigarettes and ammo. OTOH, the queers and hippies never got a foothold here. We sent em to the coast.
I miss those full service stores with the signs like "Last chance to buy alcohol , tobacco , and firearms".
and don’t forget bait and food... though sometimes you couldn’t tell which was which. We still have those around here. Welcome to Utah. Please set your watch back 20 years.
They want to replace cigarettes with joint dispensers. Classic.
To be consistent with their "prevention-focused efforts" they should also ban the sale of AIDS drugs, close the bath houses and plug up the boreholes in the stalls in public mens rooms.
Their availability just encourages self destructive behavior.
What country is San Fran Siko in anyway?
You forgot the white powders, ecstasy and anything else that's illegal...
“Stan’s Fag Disco is one city I never saw the appeal of. I have been there four times and to me, it is just a theme park for the smug latte left.”
A poofter in one of our offices took a vacation to San Francisco and immediately hit the gay bars. In order he got slipped a miki, then a salami and woke up sometime later in a park sans pants and wallet. He had to call the office to wire him money to get home.
The People’s Republic of Taxifornia.
It’s Fascism. Really.
Tobacco, no? Abortifacients, yes?
Fags banned in drug stores????....I don’t think so.....
SF was the first place my grandfather hit when he came back from the Pacific in WWII. Even back then, he said that many of the ladies trying to hustle sailors were hiding a salami below the belt.
You are right, and I should have given the community on here a bit more respect
Dude, it’s for the children, think of the children man. Pot is the peaceful drug, we just all need to chill out.....
Didn’t they just raise the tax on tobacco????
I don’t make these up... http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_9129163 c
Dude-what?
One thing laws in SF are not and that’s “sensible.” I wonder which idiot will be our next governor, Newsom or Villar?
I’m happy to see you’re taking good care of them. Click on the 18 below...
I believe there is some noise about a future gubernatorial run, which usually leads to a presidential run.
This guy would be a total disaster. I don’t want to see him get any more power than he’s already got.
I believe he tried to shut down gun shows not only in SF, but in neighboring cities as well.
I’m hoping that the rest of the state would reject this guy, but the co-conspirator in LA is a sure bet.
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