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Council adopts ordinance tightening tobacco/vape retailer rules, raises sales age and adds neighborhood proximity limits
Summary
The Terre Haute City Council on Feb. 6 approved General Ordinance 16-20-24, raising the tobacco sales age to 21, adding an electronic-cigarette definition and imposing proximity limits on tobacco/vape retailers.
The Terre Haute City Council adopted General Ordinance 16-20-24 on Feb. 6, updating local rules for tobacco and vaping retailers to reflect federal age changes and new proximity limits.
City Attorney Michael Wright explained the ordinance would change the minimum purchase age from 18 to 21, add a statutory definition of “electronic cigarette,” and add proximity restrictions that prevent a tobacco retail establishment from locating within 5,000 feet of another tobacco retailer or within 1,000 feet of a religious institution, park or community center.
Shannon Giles of Tobacco Free Vigo supported the measure and urged…
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