Today, a formal proposal to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco from 18 to 21 was introduced in San Francisco.

Supervisors Scott Wiener and Eric Mar co-authored the proposal. The move comes nearly a year after the Board of Supervisors, similar to a city council, passed a measure that would limit the amount of tobacco sales permits that would be allowed in the city.

There have been other efforts to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco in California, including recent measures to raise the age statewide, a proposal that has stalled on multiple occasions.

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Charlie Minato

I am an editor and co-founder of halfwheel.com/Rueda Media, LLC. I previously co-founded and published TheCigarFeed, one of the two predecessors of halfwheel. I have written about the cigar industry for more than a decade, covering everything from product launches to regulation to M&A. In addition, I handle a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff here at halfwheel. I enjoy playing tennis, watching boxing, falling asleep to the Le Mans 24, wearing sweatshirts year-round and eating gyros. echte liebe.