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Board advances ordinance to bar tobacco sales in pharmacies; sponsor frames move as public-health protection
Summary
Supervisors passed on first reading an ordinance that would eliminate exemptions allowing general grocery stores and big-box stores to sell tobacco products in in-store pharmacies. Sponsor emphasized public-health rationale and thanked public-health advocates and UCSF researchers.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday passed on first reading an ordinance amending the Health Code to remove exemptions that allow general grocery stores and big-box retailers to sell tobacco products in their pharmacies.
Supervisor Marr, the sponsor of the ordinance, framed the measure as an alignment of pharmacy practice with public-health goals. "Pharmacies should promote healing and protect our health, not sell cigarettes," Marr said during floor remarks, calling cigarette sales a "clear conflict of interest" for retail pharmacies. Marr cited national…
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