5. Ordinance Revisions to Chapter 5.138 of Sacramento City Code Relating to Tobacco Retailers (Passed for Publication 03/12/2019; Published 03/15/2019) [Continued from 03/26/2019] File ID: 2019-00361
Flavor ban will do nothing. Prohibition will not work you will just create a black market. Then the public could be in a true health risk. Who knows what could be put in black market liquid. Kids get alcohol illegally and yet no flavor ban there. So what's the real agenda here? As an adult I don't need my elected officials making life choices for me. And when it comes to kids it's parents responsibility to raise them not government.
This proposed legislation would be disastrous to public health and to local business. In the council's own findings, no-flavored cigarette use has been declining, this is directly attributable to vapor products and flavored vapor helping people switch from more dangerous analog cigarettes. Removing this life-saving technology from the local market will force people who've switched back to analog cigarettes, which aren't being attacked "in the name of public health" and force current smokers to a slow and painful death without viable alternatives. Business will move out of the city as black markets pop up as has already been seen in Oakland and San Francisco. Recent peer-reviewed studies have shown the efficacy of flavored vapor products in helping people free themselves of the 25,000+ carcinogenic additives in cigarettes not present in vapor products. Please reconsider a full ban, at least make considerations for adult-only establishments that are operating responsibly.
Flavor ban will do nothing. Prohibition will not work you will just create a black market. Then the public could be in a true health risk. Who knows what could be put in black market liquid. Kids get alcohol illegally and yet no flavor ban there. So what's the real agenda here? As an adult I don't need my elected officials making life choices for me. And when it comes to kids it's parents responsibility to raise them not government.
This proposed legislation would be disastrous to public health and to local business. In the council's own findings, no-flavored cigarette use has been declining, this is directly attributable to vapor products and flavored vapor helping people switch from more dangerous analog cigarettes. Removing this life-saving technology from the local market will force people who've switched back to analog cigarettes, which aren't being attacked "in the name of public health" and force current smokers to a slow and painful death without viable alternatives. Business will move out of the city as black markets pop up as has already been seen in Oakland and San Francisco. Recent peer-reviewed studies have shown the efficacy of flavored vapor products in helping people free themselves of the 25,000+ carcinogenic additives in cigarettes not present in vapor products. Please reconsider a full ban, at least make considerations for adult-only establishments that are operating responsibly.