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Board upholds two DPH tobacco suspensions, reduces one to 12 days
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Appeals upheld one 15-day tobacco‑sales suspension and reduced a second to 12 days after hearing Department of Public Health enforcement cases and testimony from store owners who said sales to decoys were honest mistakes.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals on Feb. 11 heard appeals from two retail permittees whose stores were cited by the Department of Public Health for selling tobacco to minor decoys and imposed 15‑day permit suspensions.
Dr. Johnson Ojo, representing the Department of Public Health, summarized two police monitoring actions in October 2008 in which 15‑year decoys purchased cigarettes. Under San Francisco Health Code §1009.66, DPH said the agency had the authority to suspend permits for up to 90 days and that a 15‑day suspension was the usual penalty for first offenses; DPH noted that, effective Jan. 1, its minimum suspension policy would increase to 25 days…
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