The MMS will support government action to prevent the sale of
tobacco in any health care facility licensed by the Commonwealth or
any site where a health care provider licensed under any section of
Chapter 112 of the Massachusetts General Laws practices his or her
profession.
The MMS will support government action to prohibit any
individual or corporate entity from providing shared or leased
space to a licensed health care facility in any site where tobacco
products are sold or distributed.
The MMS will support regulations preventing all licensed health
care providers from being employed in their professional capacity
by any entity selling or distributing tobacco products in the same
building or site where health care services are delivered. This
prohibition shall not apply to buildings or sites where tobacco
sales are conducted in a site with separate street entrances more
than 75 feet from the site where health services are offered and
where no interior hallways provide access to both the health care
facility and the site selling or distributing tobacco.
-- MMS House of Delegates, November 15, 2008
