The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 to ban drugstores from selling tobacco products. Mayor Gavin Newsom proposed the amendment to San Francisco’s Health code. Any pharmacy found selling tobacco products could be fined $1,000.
A spokesman for the mayor’s office Nathan Baird said “A pharmacy should be a place you go to get better, not a place you go to get cancer”.
cross posted @ Doing My Part For The Left
So when will San Francisco ban the sale of alcohol, over the counter remedies such as cough syrup, sleeping aids, and fad diet pills which have been known to harm consumers, and also stop selling candy and junk food which lead to health problems? Is this just another form of Prohibition which did not work when the Religious Right of old wanted to ban the sale of alcohol across America.
As a smoker, I appreciate that everyone is so damn concerned with my health. I appreciate the fact that I can not smoke in restaurants, night clubs, or bars in most major cities so that other people can enjoy their night out. I understand not allowing me to smoke at work and even making me stand in the broiling heat, freezing cold or rain to take my break while people still do the fake couch as they walk by the smoking area to let me know they disapprove of my smoking. I accept all that grudgingly, but when you start limiting the places where tobacco can be sold you have gone too far. It is bad enough that some stores card me when I buy cigarettes. I know you have to be of age to buy them but when I am old enough to be most of the store clerk’s father, it is a damn insult to ask for my ID or my date of birth. I am old enough to know what I am doing and even that it can be dangerous for me but that is my choice and not the government’s.
