by Jack Lee
In yet another stroke of genius (I’m joking) California’s senate committee voted on Wednesday to pass a bill that expands the prohibition on workplace smoking to include retail tobacco shops, even if there is only one employee, the owner.
The Senate’s Labor and Industrial Relations Committee voted 5-2 to refer Bill 575 to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The bill, as passed, eliminates legal smoking in retail tobacco shops, which had been exempted in the workplace smoking ban.
A lot of conservative non-smokers and tobacco aficionados protested the bill because they saw it as yet one more government encroachment on our daily lives. The Cigar Rights of America labeled this legislation as, “an assault on small business.”
Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, proposed this idiotic legislation.
I love Cuban seed Honduran cigars. Why would anyone care if people in a cigar shop are smoking cigars? That is F ing stupid! Next it will be you cant drink coffee in a coffee shop or eat a cookie in a bakery.
Let’s hear from the water carriers.
Ah Tony…thanks once again for the giggle. Water carriers!!!!
I’ll admit, this seems ludicrously stupid.
Oh, dear. Mr. DeSaulnier is my elected representative. I shall have to speak to him about this.
You know what it is … there are so many painfully intractible issues working in Contra Costa County, the poor man just wants to be able to say he DID something … even if it’s something pointless and silly.