SF News Willie Brown Predicts Booming Black Market For Cigarettes Avuncular former Mayor and noted political soothsayer Willie Brown has seen the future of California's tobacco trade, and it is about to go underground. With Proposition 29 on the ballot tomorrow*, Willie believes
SF News Rocklin Resident Wants To Ban Outdoor Smoking, Even In Your Own Backyard NIMBYs inch closer toward literalism after Rocklin resident James Baker asked the City Council to ban outdoor smoking altogether, even for residents who wish to puff relaxing, cancer-causing cigarettes on their own property.
SF News 2012 Starts Off With A Cough And A Spare the Air Whimper If you woke up to 2012 with your mouth tasting like an ashtray, as we're sure many of you did, you can take some solace in knowing it wasn't entirely due to overconsumption
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Hookah Lounges Done, Banned Over the past year, the San Francisco Health Department has tirelessly worked to shutdown the scourge known as hookah lounges. For those not in the know, hookah lounges are a rite of passage
SF News Borderlands Owner Expresses Bitterness Over "Nanny State" Smoking Laws The owner of Borderlands Cafe and Borderland Books in the Mission is apparently not pleased about San Francisco's smoking laws. Here's what he has to say in the above sign: Our Nanny State
SF News San Francisco: Still Smoking After All These Years Cigarettes we mean. Roughly 13 percent of San Franciscans still smoke tobacco (yes, clarification is necessary) according to a report released by the California Department of Public Health yesterday. The Examiner* notes that
SF News Lighting Up On Restaurant Patios Now Illegal In SF Although approved by the Board of Supervisors in March, a law banning smoking on restaurant patios went into effect this week. "Restaurants must not post signs advising customers they can only smoke at
SF News Judge Rules Against Tobacco Ban at Walgreen's You damn well ought to be able to buy your smokes at Walgreen's if you can buy them at Safeway, says Justice William McGuiness of the First Appelate District Court. The court ruled
SF News Supes Approve Tougher Anti-Smoking Regulations Yesterday, the almighty Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance "expanding the city's regulations against public smoking." That is to say, you can no longer light up a smooth, relaxing stick of solace at
Arts & Entertainment Amber to Close Perhaps due to the recent surge in popularity from neighboring Blackbird, Castro bar Amber (located at 718 14th Street) will celebrate for the last time on New Year's Eve. One of San Francisco's
SF News San Francisco May Get Tougher On Cigarette Smokers (Again) Though it was shot down last year by local businesses, on Tuesday the city reintroduced legislation that would bar the merciful release of nicotine "near the doors, vents and operable windows of any
misc What's Going On Here, Muni Driver? Now this is our kind of Muni bus driver. Travis Jensen, who snapped this shot, reports, "This San Francisco MUNI driver was spotted smoking a cigarette on the bus yesterday, Tuesday, November 10,
SF News Santa Cruz Outdoor Smoking Ban Starts Today If you're heading down to Santa Cruz this weekend to buy and take illicit drugs -- a common practice in a city that seems to have crashed into the side of California --
misc Smoking At Bus Stops This man us standing close enough to the bus stop that everyone -- including some kids -- cam smell him. If he reeked of garbage or beets, it would be considered rude, and
SF News New SF Tax For Smokers To Help Clean Up City Streets This morning, a fresh new ordinance went into effect: cigarette addicts now must pay 20 cents extra per pack "in order cover the costs of cleaning up discarded cigarette butts throughout the city.
misc Floating Head About Town, Enjoying a Smoke UPDATE: The artist is Hugh Leeman, and he'll be showing his work at White Walls on August 8th. We've seen this floating head, which is likely a portrait of Lee Scratch Perry (thanks,
misc Jonesing There's nothing worse than the smell of a fresh cigarette stub on Muni (aside from the less frequent bodily functions or a burrito in the process of being eaten). We have to admit
SF News Obama to Become First Quitter? Anti-smoking gestapo are asking President Barack Obama to "provide a teachable moment and become the 'First Quitter,'" by getting help for his nicotine addiction. While not a pack-a-day kind of guy, Obama
SF News San Jose City College Starts Campus-Wide Smoking Ban Initiating one of the toughest city college smoking bans, San Jose City College has kicked off an extreme no-smoking ban. In addition to the typical smoke-free rules inside of all buildings, the ban
SF News SF Wants to Legislate Your Health, Fatties Gone are the days of free love, free LSD, and freedom to eat whatever you want. After last week's historic decision to make San Francisco the first in the country to ban the
SF News Cough, Cough, Says Daly: New Cigarette Ban Introduced The entertaining/controversial Chris Daly, who seems a bit quiet as of late, has a new target now: wafts of cigarette smoke. We're told that his latest push of legislation "calls for a
misc Bars and Cigarettes, Together Again? That's when this article on bars working around the smoking ban in Minnesota caught our eye. According to the article, "Dozens of bars are expected to stage 'theater nights' this weekend in which
SF News How Dry I Am: Three Bay Area Cities Some of the Most Shitfaced Congratulations, Oakland (29th), Fremont (32nd), and San Francisco (34th) -- you made it on the top 50 drunkest cities in the U.S. list. At least, according to the December issue of the
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Ross Mirkarimi, sole supe against Clear Channel. [SFBG] -- Out-of-town drug dealers bring their goofballs and china white to SF. [Examiner] -- Stupid TV can't ever get us right, or so says
Arts & Entertainment SFistPhoto: Ad Hoc Golden Gate Park Hookah Lounge Now you're up to speed. Try it yourself, if you want.
