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No “Brotherly Love” For Cigars
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It’s well known that the word “Philadelphia” means “brotherly love,” but the city hasn’t shown love to cigar smokers. By placing various bans on smoking throughout the city limits, Philadelphia hasn’t treated its cigar-smoking citizens as true brothers. No, the city has reduced them to second class citizens and treated them like step-brothers at best. In 2007, the Philadelphia City Council passed the Clean Indoor Air Worker Protection Law, which banned all smoking in bars, restaurants, and workplaces throughout the city. Most recently, in 2014, Mayor Michael Nutter signed a new law that banned smoking in all of the city’s...