“We can ensure that the next generation of children in California do not become addicted to smoking,” said Assemblymember Damon Connolly, a Democrat from San Rafael and the author of the bill.The proposal is likely to face strong opposition from the tobacco industry, which would fight to maintain access to its largest U.S. market. If the ban were to become law, the industry could sue to block it. It could also challenge the ban at the ballot box, asking voters to stop it from taking effect.
Connolly and others are confident the ban would survive if they can get it past the Legislature. It’s modeled after a similar law New Zealand enacted last year that bans the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after Jan. 1, 2009. In the U.S., the city of Brookline, Mass., passed a local law banning the sale of tobacco products within its borders to anyone born after Jan. 1, 2000 — a law that so far the courts have allowed to remain in effect.
The bill would not penalize people for using or possessing tobacco products. Instead, it would fine retailers for selling to them. Connolly said he’s open to amendments that might create an exemption for religious and cultural uses. But he said the ban would not impact marijuana, which is legal to smoke recreationally in California.U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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But drugs are ok…
A world without COPD. It’s about time.
Don’t you have anything else to do? Concentrate on the major issues and quit telling us what we can and cannot do.
Well, you could have it the other way. In Canada they just made it legal in BC to possess upto 2.5 grams of illicit narcotics, pick your poison
Soooo they are working on banning tobacco products all together, meanwhile alcohol products are literally destroying people’s lives and families but continues to be left untouched..
Turning into a dictatorship State, why don't you call yourself nth kcalafornia
Smoking and obesity are far more serious public health problems than Covid ever was and both are quite amenable to public health measures. But this law almost entirely represents virtue signaling and hypocrisy since smoking cannabis and vaping are now allowed.
marijuana is no better so ban that too.
Always focusing on the important shit🤡
Only in California where the people have no say on what they want.
CA is not free. I hate smokers but I hate communists more.
So instead of putting our funds and energy towards actual issues the state is facing we’re gonna do this shit? People are still gonna find ways to get what they want
I work in big tobacco and banning it is not the solution they think it is… apparently nobody learned from prohibition; what people do when deprived of their vices…
Thats excessive
Hey Californians. Venmo me the cash and I mail you your cigarettes and cigars. For the few country folks left in california I’ll also mail dip and chew.
Definitely the 'freedom state'
This is horrendous
Land of the free
I personally will challenge all representatives who are pushing this legislation to a chess boxing match. If they win no more tobacco if I win we get flavored nicotine back
You might as well ban all fast food. slipperyslope
Healthier people... perhaps the ban should begin much much much sooner? My grandchildren would be elderly by the time it was completely implemented 🤨
More market share for meth and fentanyl = more jobs for democrats.
Lmao all while creating designated sites for junkies to shoot up heroin.
Didn't read the article but I'm pretty sure flat 'bans' on substances is one of the worst ways to stop populations from abusing them
so xxing crazy
This is terrible.
Nerd shit.
Imagine they do a better job at ending tobacco use but let the fenny, heroine, and meth use continue right on the stress. “Fuck that needle in my foot hurts but god damn stop blowing your second hand in my face” bahahahahahaahah! 🐑
What imma roll my weed in 😂
Now do booze. The real gateway drug. Let's see the nanny state do that