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Board upholds 25‑day suspension of Alibaba Smoke & Gift Shop permit for sale to minor
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Appeals upheld a 25‑day suspension of Alibaba Smoke & Gift Shop’s tobacco‑sales permit after hearing Department of Public Health evidence that a salesperson sold tobacco to an undercover decoy. Commissioners split on leniency for small‑business hardship but could not alter the disciplinary condition because the charter requires four votes to impose conditions on a departmental action.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals on a 5–0 procedural vote left in place a 25‑day suspension that the Department of Public Health (DPH) imposed on Alibaba Smoke & Gift Shop for selling tobacco to an undercover minor decoy.
DPH Principal Inspector Andrew Jin told the board the San Francisco Police Department’s undercover operation on Dec. 20 found a clerk at the shop sold tobacco to a youth decoy; the department’s administrative hearing on Feb. 11 resulted in a 25‑day suspension for violating the city’s tobacco‑sales rules. Jin described the decoy procedures and showed a sample youth identification…
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