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Monterey County outlines stiffer fines and stepped-up enforcement for flavored tobacco violations
Summary
County environmental health and law enforcement reported results of a tobacco retail licensing program review and announced an administrative citation schedule and Prop 56 grants to support decoy buys and enforcement operations.
County environmental health and allied agencies told the Board of Supervisors on March 24 that enforcement of the Tobacco Retail Licensing (TRL) program will be stepped up after inspections found prohibited flavored tobacco and intoxicating‑hemp products at multiple retailers.
"Environmental Health has inspected all 298 TRL facilities in Monterey County for this fiscal year," Armando Gonzalez, consumer protection supervisor, reported. Inspectors identified 41 facilities out of compliance for selling prohibited flavored tobacco and/or intoxicating hemp products; environmental health issued notices and requested…
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