Beverly Hills could become first US city to prohibit sale of all tobacco products
The ordinance would apply to cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco and electronic cigarettes sold in gas stations, convenience stores, pharmacies and grocery stores.
LOS ANGELES — The Beverly Hills City Council will consider a first-in-the-nation ban on all tobacco sales next Tuesday. "We're a city that has been kind of in the forefront of smoking controls and our tobacco policy in general," Mayor John Mirisch told CNBC in an interview this week. "Ultimately, public health can and should outweigh just profits or short-term business decisions."and retail stores, although it exempted hotels.
Cigarettes are displayed on store shelves Tuesday, May 7, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Beverly Hills is considering outlawing the sale of tobacco products, a move that would make the glamorous California city the first in the nation to enact such a ban.
Two dozen tobacco-selling establishments would be affected by the proposed ordinance. If approved, the ban would take effect in 2021. "Great cities are defined by their great people, places and institutions, and the Grand Havana Room is a signature location where these three things come together in Beverly Hills," actor and former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote in a letter dated March 11 to a city panel considering the tobacco ban.
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