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Next discussion will be in early September to move forward to agendize an ordinance to end all commercial tobacco product sales in San Anselmo Multiple other Marin cities are moving forward to do the same

Corte Madera might become the county’s first municipality with nicotine retailers to ban the products entirely. Several municipalities in Marin have been tightening restrictions on the sale of tobacco and nicotine products. In Southern California, Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach passed full tobacco sales bans in 2019, but allowed for some exemptions or retailer hardship…

The council’s action came the same day the Trump administration announced its first approval of fruit-flavored e-cigarettes for adults. “There’s been breaking news today,” Dr. John Maa, a general surgeon affiliated with MarinHealth Medical Center, said during public comments. “The Mill Valley mayor just texted me the unfortunate disappointing news that the Food and Drug…

Ross has become the second municipality in Marin County to ban the sale of any tobacco product. The Town Council voted on Thursday to expand its anti-smoking code. Tiburon approved a similar ban earlier this month. The Ross code aims to “ban the sale of all tobacco products,” a staff report said. Local high school…

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/bay-area-tiburon-first-in-us-tobacco-nicotine-ban-21145772.php Speaking about the ordinance at an Oct. 15 town council meeting, Town Manager Greg Chanis said that, “Tiburon is in a unique position to consider more stringent regulations as we … currently have no retail tobacco sales.” At the same meeting, a number of high school students from Marin County’s Youth Action Committee — a group working to reduce…

Tiburon has become the first town in the nation to ban the sale of tobacco and tobacco-related products with no exemptions. The Town Council, which gave the ordinance preliminary approval in October, gave it final approval on Wednesday. The ordinance will go into effect on Dec. 5. Beverly Hills and Manhattan Beach implemented similar bans…

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/officials-weigh-controversial-ban-products-020000067.html The ordinance goes into effect in one month!

If given final approval by the board at its meeting Nov. 18, the new law will allow cities and towns within Marin County to pass individual ordinances by July 1, and countywide enforcement will start by Sept. 1 of next year. That would be followed by consistent enforcement through existing agreements with the county Sheriff’s…

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“We saw the same thing with vaping, which was touted as a way to help adults stop smoking. But we ended up with an epidemic of vaping among high school kids and young adults who weren’t smokers in the first place,” says John Maa, M.D. “Zyn is worse because of this myth about its performance enhancement.”