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Council committee advances ordinance adding illegal tobacco sales to nuisance rules, requires retailer training
Summary
The Philadelphia City Council Licenses and Inspections committee voted to advance an amendment to add illegal sales of tobacco to minors and unlicensed tobacco retailing to the city's nuisance-business rules and to require department-approved tobacco retailer education as a condition for lifting cease-operations orders.
The Philadelphia City Council Licenses and Inspections Committee on Thursday advanced an amendment to Bill 251097 that would add illegal sales of tobacco products to minors and operation of tobacco retail establishments without a Philadelphia tobacco retailer permit to the city's nuisance-business framework and require department-approved education for nuisance retailers.
Public-health witnesses told the committee the measure would strengthen enforcement and reduce youth access. "Nearly 4000 Philadelphians die each year due to tobacco use," Ben Hartung, public policy adviser with the Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention at the Philadelphia Department of…
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