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...restricts smoking to 50 percent of seating in restaurants. But no restaurants actually need to make changes to comply with the new law, according to Kate Dempsey, coordinator of Cambridge United for Smoking Prevention (CUSP), the group which wrote the original bill...
...original proposal would have limited smoking to 30 percent of restaurants' seats in the first two years, and 15 percent thereafter. CUSP Chair Mark A. Gottlieb described the amended restaurant provisions as "meaningless...
...important departure from the original plan, the bill permits the continued use of open cigarette displays. Tobacco companies pay groceries to put the open displays of cigarettes in aisles, but CUSP officials argued that it attracted young people and wanted them behind counters...
...CUSP measure had already been perceived as a compromise. Other communities in the state have enacted tougher restrictions, including a ban in Brookline on all smoking in restaurants...
...CUSP members lamented the amendments, saying they rendered the bill impotent...