SF Votes Today on Tobacco Sales Ban

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors votes today on whether to ban the sale of cigarettes at the city's pharmacies. City and state legislatures across America—as well as giant pharmacy chains like CVS and Wal-Mart—are carefully watching the outcome of what could be a harbinger of things to come, reports the Wall Street Journal.

The city was "the first to ban smoking in workplaces and has been a catalyst for other jurisdiction," said the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. "If San Francisco prohibits the sale of tobacco in pharmacies, we could see this prohibition spread across major areas of the nation." (More San Francisco stories.)