Smoking ban proposal sparks backlash from business owners in coastal town

Officials successful Tiburon, California, person moved to prohibit the merchantability of each tobacco.

On Wednesday, the municipality assembly unanimously passed an ordinance that would prohibition the merchantability of cigarettes, cigars, vapes, e-cigarettes and each different nicotine products.

Tiburon Mayor Holli Thier told Fox News Digital successful a connection that she is "pleased to person sponsored" and "voted to prevention lives and prevention our environment."

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"With section younker successful Marin County vaping astatine doubly the nationalist average, it is captious that we instrumentality each efforts to trim teen addiction … by banning each baccy income present successful Tiburon, we are preventing younker from getting addicted and protecting our environment," she added.

Cigarettes are the biggest root of single-use integrative uncovering its mode into rivers, bays and oceans successful the world, Thier said.

Officials successful Tiburon, California, person moved guardant to prohibit the merchantability of baccy products successful the Bay Area. (iStock)

An anti-tobacco radical of precocious schoolhouse students from crossed Marin County, the Youth Advocacy Committee (YAC), were contiguous astatine a fewer municipality assembly meetings to advocator for the ordinance.

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Diana Garcia, a YAC student, reiterated her beardown enactment for the ban. "I impulse you to support supporting this amendment to support the wellness and aboriginal of our youth. You person a accidental to acceptable an illustration for communities to follow," she said astatine the Nov. 5 meeting.

In 2022, astir 50 cardinal U.S. adults reported the usage of immoderate baccy product, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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The CDC besides reports that smoking and secondhand fume vulnerability origin implicit 480,000 deaths each year, with "smoking harm[ing] astir each organ of the assemblage and caus[ing] galore diseases."

The caller anti-tobacco ordinance is acceptable to instrumentality effect successful December. (iStock)

The 2023 County Health Rankings & Roadmaps study by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine ranked Marin County arsenic the healthiest California county.

"We stay committed to doing the hard enactment and changing the outcomes truthful each successful Marin tin thrive and unrecorded steadfast lives," said Niccore Tyler, Marin County's wellness and quality services’ main strategy officer, astatine the time.

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The California Fuels & Convenience Alliance penned an absorption missive to the municipality council.

"We judge this implicit prohibition sends a discouraging connection to tiny businesses and entrepreneurs. Small businesses, including convenience stores and state stations, are indispensable to communities and supply residents with convenient entree to mundane necessities," it read.

In 2022, astir 50 cardinal U.S. adults reported the usage of immoderate baccy product.  (iStock)

"Complete prohibitions connected merchandise categories, alternatively than tenable regulation, nonstop a connection that tiny businesses whitethorn look unpredictable restrictions, creating uncertainty that discourages entrepreneurship and concern successful Tiburon," the missive continued.

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The ordinance is acceptable to instrumentality effect successful December.