Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...someone who always thought of pipe cleaners as plumbing utensils, I clearly don't spend much time at tobacco shops. I was lured into Leavitt and Pierce, a tobacco shop on Mass Ave., by its amazing marbles and tin cars. Upon close inspection the store offers more than kitsch and tobacco. Up a small catwalk and past a culturally-sensitive Native American cigar seller statue are five wooden tables with inlaid chess boards...
...Cambridge. Leavitt and Pierce gained exemption from the city ordinance against smoking because they would so obviously be adversely affected by it. Actually, even while society has come to see smokers more and more as lepers, Leavitt and Pierce has been doing quite well. Unwittingly, MacDonald remarked, "The tobacco industry is still pretty healthy." Immediately realizing the irony of his statement, he added "the peace and quiet I get from smoking up here for a hour a day easily compensates for any negative effects caused by smoking...
...coming weeks, the Cambridge City Council will consider a bill that would impose new and tougher restrictions on smoking in restaurants and bars, and would fight the sale of tobacco to minors. We urge the council to support the rights of the city's many non-smoking residents and pass the bill...
...also endorse the bill's provision for closer monitoring of tobacco vendors to fight the sale of tobacco to minors. Teenagers are the highest risk groups when it comes to smoking. Officials report that 13 percent of Cambridge residents under 18 are smokers. With proper enforcement of existing laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco to minors, the ban might become obsolete. We can only see good coming from strong restrictions on minors's purchase of tobacco...
...other party, smokers, would find some limitations on their behavior but nothing approaching the banning of tobacco. Smokers will still have every right to continue smoking as much or as little as they wish, as long as it does not threaten the health or enjoyment of anyone else. We have laws on public drunkenness, we have speed limits--we should have stronger smoking restrictions...