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There is no end in sight to Fascism in the name of Public Welfare.

From: Boston.com

Dr. Barbara Ferrer, director of the city’s Public Health Commission, said she doesn’t want any more young people to pick up the deadly habits.

She said she wants to “de-normalize” smoking.

The restrictions, which face a final vote by the commission’s seven-member board on Nov. 13, also would ban smoking on outdoor patios at restaurants and other businesses and prohibit tobacco sales on college campuses and by all drug stores in the city.

“Ideally, I’d like to say by 2025 that we don’t have anybody smoking,” Ferrer said.

The push has sparked debate about how much government intervention is too much, how far into private lives government should reach, and why, in a tough economy, the city would propose shutting down viable businesses.

Cigar Masters co-owner Brett Greenfield said he and his partners invested $270,000 in the Back Bay bar, relying on the smoking ban exemption.

“We’re in a 20-year lease and they want to shut us down,” Greenfield said. “There aren’t people who are in there who are expecting to not be around second-hand smoke.”

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