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 12, 2019 08:17 PMI do.
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Dec 13, 2019 08:57 AMSmoking with teens is the lowest in history. Victory! Vaping commercial products has zero health risk. Victory! Vaping homemade concoctions can be deleterious and yet the number of problems compared to the number of users is so small it is laughable. Pot is far more dangerous than commercial vaping products and yet we are demonizing vaping and openly advertising and selling pot. We are nuts.
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Dec 12, 2019 10:55 AMZEROHAWK, The number of deaths, and those getting really sick, are updated on the TV news. You think it's all a scam? I doubt it.
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Dec 12, 2019 01:12 PMFLICKA - to draw a parallel, it is like taking regulated alcohol off the shelves because people are being killed by homemade alcohol.
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Dec 12, 2019 01:18 PM1:12, more accurately, it's like taking alcohol with strawberry flavors in containers decorated by unicorns and snowboard heroes out of the stores because people are being killed by homemade alcohol. But you are still ignoring all of the legal products containing nicotine that are addicting our kids who think vaping is cool. There still will be enough time to get addicted and ruin their lives when they are 21.
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Dec 13, 2019 08:31 AMIts not a scam, its just NOT the same thing. please the CDC even released a statement saying it was "bootleg THC cartridges containing Vitamin E acetate". The flavor ban, the addiction issue, the underage getting a hold of them issue are all completely different topics and discussions.
its like eating a cheeseburger, your friend cooked but he calls it a "big mac". he prepares it horribly, and dangerously under cooked. you get salmonella you die. do you sue Mc Donalds? Burger King? remove burgers from menus because they are dangerous? outlaw burger patties because they are an unknown un controllable substance that no one can manage.
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Dec 13, 2019 08:37 AMGood analogy with the burgers.
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Dec 12, 2019 01:27 PMBan this, ban that. Officious, overbearing, finger-wagging scolds telling others how to live their lives. Bunch of intermeddling Gladys Kravitz busybodies.
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Dec 12, 2019 02:24 PMBut the yutes can be exposed to pot. Rich. So, does this mean that no one can mail order tobacco at much cheaper rates anymore, once it takes effect? Or does this just apply to vaping? I need to go stock up on my mint flavored juice now and order a few bags of decently priced tobacco since they think they can ban grown adults from doing that. I will also be consulting with an attorney to see if this is even legal (constitutionally).
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Dec 12, 2019 03:51 PMGood on 'em, it's only outlaws and ruffians what lives in unincorporated areas. Maybe death penalty for postal workers making deliveries of illicit substances out there.
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Dec 12, 2019 09:40 PMWhats the big deal? They only banned it in the forgotten lands of the unincorporated parts of the county. Which means squat since I don't know of any 7-11 along the 166 to Cuyama. Need a Juul - go to Lompoc or Vandenberg Village or Orcutt or Santa Maria or Guadalupe or Buellton or Solvang or Santa Ynez or Goleta or SB or Summerland or Carp. Or just order the damn things online like the kids do.
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