Thank you for doing hard drugs and not smoking

Beverly Hills’ city council voted unanimously last week to make their town a tobacco-free zone. The sale of cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, and e-cigarettes will be forbidden except at a handful of high-class cigar lounges and hotels.

Although Beverly Hills becomes the first city to adopt such a draconian policy on tobacco and nicotine products, tobacco use has been on the way out for quite some time. High taxes and tobacco prices, along with smoking bans at bars and a more widespread acknowledgment of the substance’s health risks, have all contributed to a dramatic decline in Americans’ smoking. The relative lack of butts on the ground tells the tale.