No sale, Buffalo says, to ads near schools touting tobacco

Buffalo News has a story on the nanny state:

"Cigarettes" is painted in bold red letters on the side of a Hampshire Street grocery store, a block from the Bilingual Education Center.

No one accuses these stores of selling cigarettes to children. Nonetheless, they are breaking a city law that forbids posting outdoor tobacco signs within 1,000 feet of schools, youth centers, playgrounds and day care centers. The law has been on the books for a long time, but the city didn't start enforcing it until this summer.

Who's to say they will not change it to 2000 feet or 5000 feet? What would stop them? If Buffalo thinks cigarettes are so bad then why not set an example, they shouldn't use cigarette taxes as revenue in their budgets.