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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...
Council member Anthony D. Galluccio led an effort to remove the requirement that all tobacco products be kept behind cash registers in locked display cases away from customer reach. The provision was intended to curb youth smoking, according to Dempsey...
...disgusted by Councillor Galluccio's amendment," Dempsey said following the votes. "This amendment was primarily about youth access to tobacco, and we were trying to [show] that tobacco is not as prevalent in society as people perceive it" by removing the displays...
...Dempsey said the amendments require that restaurants with bar areas only need to set aside half of the restaurant seats for non-smokers, not half of total seating. Thus, a restaurant-bar could in theory set aside only a quarter of its seats for non-smokers...
...felt this was an incredibly generous compromise, but it just didn't get looked at," Dempsey said. "The council was predisposed to vote this way because of lobbying...