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It seems that they want to ban the sale of smokes in the town, not ban smoking in the town.
However, THAT would be totally unconstitutional!
Although the way things are now I wouldn't be surprised if that's next. I used to buy my smokes at the local Rite Aid, but they insisted that people show ID each and every time they wanted to purchase smokes, even though I had been going there for 17 years and all the people who work there know me!
It was just harrassment.
I wrote to Rite Aid and told them I would not be spending those thousands of dollars each year at their store; I'd go to a different one. I haven't been in a Rite Aid for almost a year. Their loss.
Laws that protect us from ourselves. (Sigh) Always, some group or another seeks to impose their thinking on everyone, in the belief that we just can't be trusted with our own lives. No matter how you slice it, this kind of rationale ends up being no more than arrogant elitism wrapped in pretty paper labeled "its for your own good".
Last I checked, We the People don't elect representatives to save us from ourselves. This local government is putting things like sanitation, mosquito control, EMS, and the things they are supposed to work on, aside and squandering resources to forces people to "just LISTEN to them!!! The time and money spent, already, toward their noble aim of tobacco abolition, could probably have funded something far more worthwhile. Like water distribution upgrades, etc.
All for an ordinance that does NOTHING other than make a statement. I say, if they want to make a statement, fine. Wear a T shirt or get a bumper sticker. On their own dime.
Thank you, for letting me know I really thought I was gonna bring CVS down by not going to buy cigs there once a week.
Damn it.
All I am saying is that is why CVS did it, it was a business decision to make their company look good. If CVS thought there would be any backlash or too much loss in money, then they wouldn't have done it. But today, the small percentage of Americans that still smokes continues to shrink, eventually making cigarettes won't be a profitable business.
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. California=Totalitarian State
