The Boston Public Health Commission unanimously voted to approve a ban on cigarette sales in pharmacies and college campuses, but granted cigar bars five extra years before facing extinction, the Boston Globe reported Dec. 11.

The new rules are slated to go into effect in 60 days. Earlier this year, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban tobacco sales at drug stories, saying selling cigarettes was out of place in stores devoted to healthcare products

Boston officials originally wanted to shutter cigar bars in five years. However, after considering protests from owners and patrons of cigar bars and hookah lounges, the health commission voted to make the ban effective in 10 years. While smoking bars may ask for further extensions at the end of the 10-year period, no new cigar bars or hookah lounges will be allowed to open.

"Cigarettes are bad, they're harmful to people, there's a need for us to change the social norms around cigarettes," said Harold Cox, a member of the health commission and an associate dean at the Boston University School of Public Health. "Our responsibility as governmental officials is to protect people."