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...Tobacco use is legal. Restaurant proprietors should be permitted to decide on an individual basis whether to abolish smoking in their establishments...
...proposed ordinance also aims to attack youth access to tobacco. It would require all tobacco vendors to purchase a sale permit from the city and to require proof of age before selling cigarettes. Current law only requires vendors to register with the state...
...plans to speak today," said Kate Dempsey, CUSP coordinator and tobacco-control manager for the city's Department of Human Services...
...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...