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Board directs staff to study whether smoking bars should be treated differently from other tobacco retailers
Summary
After a request from Metro Gas (27 Shrewsbury St.), the Worcester Board of Health unanimously voted to ask public‑health staff to research whether the city should distinguish smoking bars from other retail tobacco permit holders in its October 2023 rules.
The Worcester Board of Health voted unanimously to ask Division of Public Health staff to study whether the city’s tobacco permit regulations should treat smoking bars differently from other kinds of tobacco retailers.
The motion, made by Gary Rosen and seconded by Michael Perrado, passed on a 5‑0 voice vote. The referral asks staff to research regulatory distinctions and return with recommendations about whether to amend the October 2023 tobacco product sales permit rules.
The action followed a presentation by an attorney for a retail applicant at 27 Shrewsbury Street (identified in testimony as Metro Gas). The attorney argued that the current regulation treats on‑premise smoking bars and off‑premise retail sellers the same even though the…
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