Blood & Oppression on the hands of SF Mayor

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is responsible for declaring the city that of a sanctuary for illegal immigrants which resulted in the loss of a woman's entire family who was murdered by an illegal who should've been deported for several offenses, besides already being an illegal intruder of our nation.

Now, besides the blood on Newsom's hand, we have farther oppression of the smoking community as well as the revocation of the rights of pharmacy shops who, thanks to the effort of Newsom, are now banned from selling tobacco products.

A spokesman for the Mayor's office says pharmacies are where people go to get well, not to "get cancer." Well, we should probably ban cough syrup (Mind trips), alcohol (Car crash, rape, wreckless endangerment, Korsokoffs, throat cancer, mental retardation, liver malfunction), all the drugs that are not fully approved as being safe (Chantix, causing dementia, pulled from the market now), nicotine gums/patches (carcinogenic), etc etc etc etc etc... Oh, we should probably prohibit the sales of candy, soda, ice cream as well... These foods cause obesity and diabetes, certainly not something one should pick up while at a pharmacy.

Let us also not forget this cities ban on plastic bags from super markets and pharmacies.

Does San Francisco do anything good or bear any point of existence?

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 on Tuesday to ban the sale of tobacco in pharmacies beginning this fall, making it the first U.S. city to impose such a ban, a mayor's office official said.

The measure, which was proposed by Mayor Gavin Newsom, amends San Francisco's health code to prohibit tobacco sales in any pharmacy, whether a small mom-and-pop store or a large retailer like Walgreens. Drugstores caught selling tobacco products in the city will be fined up to $1,000.

"A pharmacy should be a place you go to get better, not a place you go to get cancer," said Nathan Ballard, a spokesman for the mayor's office.

The citywide ban was modeled on rules enacted in eight Canadian provinces.

Similar proposals have failed this year in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Illinois and New York. San Francisco is the first city in the country to ban the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies, Ballard said.

Opponents of the ban say it puts pharmacies at a competitive disadvantage against other retailers and will do little to curb the smoking habits of San Franciscans.

In a letter to Newsom's office, Dennis Loper of the California Distributors Association wrote that the ban "limits the rights of legitimate retailers from selling a legal product."

The city's ban was supported by numerous anti-smoking and health advocacy groups, including the California Medical Association and the American Cancer Society.

Tobacco use is responsible for more than 400,000 deaths a year in the U.S. and is the leading cause of preventable death nationally, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The National Association of Chain Drug Stores, which also sent a letter to the city opposing the ban, did not immediately return messages seeking comment late Tuesday.