Supervisors Approve Flavored Tobacco Ban
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The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors have approved a ban on flavored tobacco in unincorporated areas.
Four supervisors approved the ban with Peter Adam of the Fourth District dissenting.
The amended ordinance to Licensure to Tobacco Retailers includes requirements to prevent youth exposure to tobacco, including electronic smoking devices, also known as vaping, and flavored tobacco products. It also prohibits mail-order deliveries, coupons for discounted tobacco, and small pack sales.
The legal smoking age to buy tobacco is 21 years in the State of California.
Final approval of the ordinance is scheduled for December 17 and could take effect within 90 days if approved.
County Supervisors Consider Flavored Tobacco Ban
The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors are meeting Tuesday to discuss a ban on flavored tobacco.
The ban will only be effective in the unincorporated areas of the county.
The proposed ordinance or County Code Chapter 37A - Licensure to Tobacco Retailers will include language that provides strengthened public health requirements for tobacco retailers in an effort to prevent youth exposure to tobacco, including electronic smoking devices and flavored tobacco products.
"The amendment provides a multi-pronged approach to address underage nicotine use and regulate businesses to prevent youth access to nicotine and tobacco products. The amendment includes language to prohibit the sale of flavored tobacco products, prohibit small and inexpensive pack sizes, prohibit coupons that allow a consumer to purchase a tobacco product for less than the full retail price, prohibit the sale of any tobacco product to a consumer through a multiple-package discount or otherwise provide any such product to a consumer for less than the full retail price. This item will prohibit the mail-order, home delivery of tobacco products to consumers," according to the county's website.
The City of Santa Maria has already approved a similar ban.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports 42 people have died from complications with vaping prompting many local governments to take action.
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Dec 10, 2019 12:03 PMDear Supervisors;
While you are considering things, please include a ban on:
Loitering, vagrancy, encampments in the bushes, open drug use, using sidewalks as toilets, midnight prowling by meth addicts on bikes, cars & motorcycles racing on Cabrillo,
reckless driving on 154, baby gang-bangers, litter-bug-animal chasing-cig butt tossing tourists, & dogs crapping everywhere?.
Thanx.
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Dec 11, 2019 09:03 AMlets add over entitled dog owners allowing their animals to use state street and our side walk gardens as toilets....
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Dec 10, 2019 03:57 PMAnd close Chase Palm Park forever.
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Dec 10, 2019 11:50 AMI don't use this stuff, but really don't think some city employee should have a right to tell us what we can and can't inhale/smoke/enjoy.
My great grandfather smoked a pipe, with flavored tobacco. There are cigar shops in town. This is serious over reach.
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Dec 11, 2019 09:06 AM@751 again, how is SBobserver ranting? they speak the truth.
i gotta feeling you're a millennial. .....lol
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Dec 11, 2019 09:06 AM@ 751, i'm just behind your time. not the worlds. LOL you really think that just 50 years ago, we were so less that there was no traffic and crowds? fairytale land yo....
Pipe tobacco is still sold and used. Flavored. So are cigars.
I don't smoke at all, but i sure as hell don't need some elected ass hat telling me i can't. that's my own decision.
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Dec 10, 2019 01:44 PMSB Observer. Very funny and sadly so true.
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Dec 10, 2019 01:38 PMHah. GREAT Grandad. What decades? Makes the case even more unshakable.
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Dec 10, 2019 01:35 PMSANTABARBARAOBSERVER. Such an immature rant.
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Dec 10, 2019 01:34 PMZEROHAWK. You are "seriously" behind the times. Back in your Grandad's day population was a heck of a lot less. We weren't crammed in together, a constant crowd. Why do you think smoking is banned? It's to keep our lungs a bit clearer and to keep the air cleaner. Any smoke is bad smoke, flavored or otherwise.
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Dec 10, 2019 12:46 PMBut Zerohawk, they are our Overlords. They were not elected into their rolls to manage the business of the county. They are there to make sure we dont suffocate on a plastic bag or go into a park after dark... We really do need these middle managers to manage our lives otherwise we'd all just lose it. Thank goodness they are so smart, experienced and ever so successful at their core duties. It gives them all this free time to make sure we dont have vaping juice sold next to the huffing gas, the candy flavored vodka and the cherry cigarillos...
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