In the United States, the California City Council of Beverly Hills has unanimously approved a measure to ban the sale of nicotine-containing products. This legislation, which will come into force at the beginning of the year 2021, prohibit petrol stations, grocery stores, pharmacies and all other businesses to market tobacco in all its forms (cigarettes, chewing tobacco), but also chewing gum containing nicotine, and e-cigarettes.
PROHIBITIONS AND EXCEPTIONS!
According to the mayor of this city known for being very popular with show business stars, John MirischThis is a first in the United States.
The council hopes to dissuade children from taking an interest in smoking, by presenting products containing nicotine not as something cool », But on the contrary as harmful and bad products. His city already had strict smoking laws, and smoking is prohibited on the streets, in parks, or in apartment buildings. Likewise, the sale of flavored tobacco products is prohibited.
According to Ruth Malone, professor of behavioral sciences at the University of California, however, this is not the first time that a community has tried to ban tobacco products. She recalls that cigarettes are the deadliest consumer product in history. " So it makes sense for someone to point out that these products are too dangerous to sell on every street corner ».
The new law has, however, provided some exceptions, particularly to accommodate the many foreign visitors to Beverly Hills. For example, local hotel concierges will be able to continue selling cigarettes to registered customers. The three cigar fumigas of the city will also be spared.
Lili Bosse, City Councilor of Beverly Hills, specifies that the measure is not intended to alert residents that they are no longer allowed to smoke, but that the city council no longer wants to allow the purchase of tobacco. " Le 
right that people have to smoke is obviously something we hold for sacred. But what we are saying is that we will not participate in marketing. They will not be able to buy it in our city ", she says.
According to Bosse, the move is intended to promote Beverly Hills' broader policy on physical, mental and emotional health and well-being. In return for this ban, the city will finance free cessation programs for residents who decide to quit smoking.
Professor Malone hopes the ban will be emulated by others. “People used tobacco in the XNUMXth century. But they weren't dying of it in the proportions we know now, until the invention of the machine-rolled cigarette and the really aggressive marketing that followed. A tobacco historian has called the last century the “century of cigarettes”. I think we are starting to say to ourselves: " Wait, we do not need to know another century of smoking, only for protect tobacco companies ".
Source : Express.live/
