Beverly Hills Makes a Novel Move Against Tobacco

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(NEWSER) – Beverly Hills has become the first US city to end most tobacco sales. The City Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to snuff out sales of cigarettes, cigars, e-cigarettes, and other tobacco products beginning in 2021. The ban covers sales at gas stations and pharmacies as well as convenience and grocery stores. However, it exempts hotels and three plush cigar lounges in the wealthy and glamorous Los Angeles suburb. The AP explains the hotel exemption was designed to accommodate tourists, who could have room service deliver their smokes—although they'd have to smoke them outside.


Gas station owners opposed the measure, saying it unfairly targeted their businesses and might force employee layoffs. Public health advocates argued that the cost is higher in terms of health. The Los Angeles Times reports the city has long been extremely tough on tobacco: Smoking has been banned in restaurants since 1987, and doing so in apartment buildings and sidewalks is currently prohibited. The Times predicts "a wave of copycat laws in small municipalities around the country."

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https://www.newser.com/story/276114/...t-tobacco.html

I move to ban soy in Ca.

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For thy sake, TOBACCO, I
Would do any thing but die,
And but seek to extend my days
Long enough to sing thy praise.
But, as she, who once hath been
A king's consort, is a queen
Ever after, nor will bate
Any tittle of her state,
Though a widow, or divorced,
So I, from thy converse forced,
The old name and style retain,
A right Katherine of Spain;
And a seat, too, 'mongst the joys
Of the blest Tobacco Boys;
Where, though I, by sour physician,
Am debarr'd the full fruition
Of thy favours, I may catch
Some collateral sweets, and snatch
Sidelong odours, that give life
Like glances from a neighbour's wife;
And still live in the by-places
And the suburbs of thy graces;
And in thy borders take delight,
An unconquer'd Canaanite.

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From Farewell to Tobacco Charles Lamb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNjunlWUJJI

Health is wealth. The cali govt is out there working over time to help out its citizens.

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Originally Posted by tod evans

I move to ban soy in Ca.

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Or just ban CA itself...

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Originally Posted by DamianTV

Or just ban CA itself...

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Isn't soy all that's holding the twig people together?

Ca. might not be so bad without all the libs..

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Originally Posted by tod evans

Isn't soy all that's holding the twig people together?

Ca. might not be so bad without all the libs..

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It would actually be a pretty nice place.

Yet at the same time weed and mushrooms are being legalized.

So, WTF?

Why is one naturally occurring plant, that when smoked produces a euphoric sense of well being, being banned, while one that does pretty much the exact same thing is being legalized?

I'll answer my own question: gynocracy.

Woemen have been bitching about smoking for centuries now.

The Betrothed

By: Rudyard Kipling

Open the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout,
For things are running crossways, and Maggie and I are out.

We quarrelled about Havanas -- we fought o'er a good cheroot,
And I knew she is exacting, and she says I am a brute.

Open the old cigar-box -- let me consider a space;
In the soft blue veil of the vapour musing on Maggie's face.

Maggie is pretty to look at -- Maggie's a loving lass,
But the prettiest cheeks must wrinkle, the truest of loves must pass.

There's peace in a Larranaga, there's calm in a Henry Clay;
But the best cigar in an hour is finished and thrown away --

Thrown away for another as perfect and ripe and brown --
But I could not throw away Maggie for fear o' the talk o' the town!

Maggie, my wife at fifty -- grey and dour and old --
With never another Maggie to purchase for love or gold!

And the light of Days that have Been the dark of the Days that Are,
And Love's torch stinking and stale, like the butt of a dead cigar --

The butt of a dead cigar you are bound to keep in your pocket --
With never a new one to light tho' it's charred and black to the socket!

Open the old cigar-box -- let me consider a while.
Here is a mild Manila -- there is a wifely smile.

Which is the better portion -- bondage bought with a ring,
Or a harem of dusky beauties, fifty tied in a string?

Counsellors cunning and silent -- comforters true and tried,
And never a one of the fifty to sneer at a rival bride?

Thought in the early morning, solace in time of woes,
Peace in the hush of the twilight, balm ere my eyelids close,

This will the fifty give me, asking nought in return,
With only a Suttee's passion -- to do their duty and burn.

This will the fifty give me. When they are spent and dead,
Five times other fifties shall be my servants instead.

The furrows of far-off Java, the isles of the Spanish Main,
When they hear my harem is empty will send me my brides again.

I will take no heed to their raiment, nor food for their mouths withal,
So long as the gulls are nesting, so long as the showers fall.

I will scent 'em with best vanilla, with tea will I temper their hides,
And the Moor and the Mormon shall envy who read of the tale of my brides.

For Maggie has written a letter to give me my choice between
The wee little whimpering Love and the great god Nick o' Teen.

And I have been servant of Love for barely a twelvemonth clear,
But I have been Priest of Cabanas a matter of seven year;

And the gloom of my bachelor days is flecked with the cheery light
Of stumps that I burned to Friendship and Pleasure and Work and Fight.

And I turn my eyes to the future that Maggie and I must prove,
But the only light on the marshes is the Will-o'-the-Wisp of Love.

Will it see me safe through my journey or leave me bogged in the mire?
Since a puff of tobacco can cloud it, shall I follow the fitful fire?

Open the old cigar-box -- let me consider anew --
Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should abandon you?

A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke;
And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.

Light me another Cuba -- I hold to my first-sworn vows.
If Maggie will have no rival, I'll have no Maggie for Spouse!

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Originally Posted by Anti Federalist

Yet at the same time weed and mushrooms are being legalized.

So, WTF?

Why is one naturally occurring plant, that when smoked produces a euphoric sense of well being, being banned, while one that does pretty much the exact same thing is being legalized?

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Because they're crazy.

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Originally Posted by Suzanimal

Because they're crazy.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4mWDmJHXF8

That makes little to no sense since weed and mushrooms are being legalized.

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Originally Posted by Anti Globalist

That makes little to no sense since weed and mushrooms are being legalized.

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It makes perfect sense........

Olde white men is suits-n-ties puff cigars and pipes full of evil plant matter...

Young multicultural 'people' who are sensitive and caring consume enlightened plant matter and fungi.

The 'war' isn't on the plants......

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Originally Posted by tod evans

It makes perfect sense........

Olde white men is suits-n-ties puff cigars and pipes full of evil plant matter...

Young multicultural 'people' who are sensitive and caring consume enlightened plant matter and fungi.

The 'war' isn't on the plants......

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And there is the answer.

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Originally Posted by tod evans

Isn't soy all that's holding the twig people together?

Ca. might not be so bad without all the libs..

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Yeah, now the same idiots want to do the same thing to Texas... That is the trouble with morons, they do not learn from their mistakes and dont give two shits if someone else has to suffer their consequences.

I would not stay there anyway .

I'm at a loss for a movie quote. The quote is something like "tobacco is a blessing of old/is blessed of old." And I'm pretty sure an old woman says it, but I cannot find what movie it's from. Anyone know?

I thought it was Granny Hawkins in The Outlaw Josey Wales....but I rewatched her part and she didn't ever say it....maybe it's that other old lady later on...

Isn't the war on tobacco Injunphobic?

What I find to be ironic is that Pot is now legal, and tobacco is on its way out the door? Can someone say Prohibition 2.0? Only thing they are doing is creating Tobacco Lords.