{"id":1130,"date":"2014-11-16T16:07:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T16:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2014-11-17T04:47:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T04:47:31","slug":"usa-massachusetts-town-considers-tobacco-sales-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2014\/11\/16\/usa-massachusetts-town-considers-tobacco-sales-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"USA: Massachusetts town considers tobacco sales ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The small town of Westminster, Massachusetts (population 7300) is considering banning the sale of all products containing nicotine within its city limits.\u00a0 PBS reports the town&#8217;s health board has put forward a proposal, with\u00a0the three member board to make a\u00a0decision in\u00a0late December. If the proposal is adopted,\u00a0 products purchased elsewhere would still be allowed to be used in the town. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/massachusetts-town-mulls-nations-first-total-tobacco-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\">The full PBS video report and transcript are here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0Lawrence Friedman, a constitutional law professor at New England Law School in Boston quoted in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/small-town-mass-fumes-over-proposed-tobacco-sales-ban-284380\" target=\"_blank\">Newsweek report<\/a>, the proposed ban would not face any constitutional barriers. He\u00a0cites examples of several\u00a0counties\u00a0in Arkansas which have prohibited the sale of alcohol, and\u00a0notes that as\u00a0long as the prohibition applies uniformly to all\u00a0businesses\u00a0it would likely be on safe legal ground. The Newsweek report also includes a\u00a0link to the full proposal.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The small town of Westminster, Massachusetts (population 7300) is considering banning the sale of all products containing nicotine within its city limits.\u00a0 PBS reports the town&#8217;s health board has put forward a proposal, with\u00a0the three member board to make a\u00a0decision in\u00a0late December. If the proposal is adopted,\u00a0 products purchased elsewhere would still be allowed to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2014\/11\/16\/usa-massachusetts-town-considers-tobacco-sales-ban\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2150,2138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-end-game","category-legislation-and-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}