Posted on 05/23/2019 12:01:07 PM PDT by DallasBiff
As the city of Beverly Hills gets ready to pass perhaps the toughest law on tobacco sales in the country, local elites have lobbied to exempt their swanky and exclusive cigar lounges. Among them are a cardiac surgeon, a rabbi and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and they may have smoked their way past the pending law, according to the Los Angeles TImes.
Once passed, as expected, the city would terminate the sale of any tobacco products — with the exception of three cigar lounges, where those products could be bought and smoked on those premises.
The law would prohibit the sale of “cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco, and smokeless tobacco and any electronic cigarette.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Betting they are pushing pot more than ever before!
“I bet the gas stations near Olympic Blvd. which are in Beverly Hills bounds are not happy with this. “
When I was getting my MBA I learned that for every dollar of gas stations sold, they sold $16 of beer, cigarettes and lottery tickets. (They make, on average, five cents per gallon on the gas.) This will be a huge impact to stations. It may result in closures and increased unemployment. But, hey, it’s for the children...or something.
“It may result in closures and increased unemployment.”
They don’t give a sh!t. They’re already wealthy.
“Iy haf deciyded wat iss gud forr eferywon. Ahl be bach...as a daemocrot.”
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