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E-cigarettes

City Attorney secures $250,000 judgment against smoke shop owners flouting flavored tobacco laws

April 21, 2025March 5, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Large-scale decoy operation revealed owners illegally sold flavored tobacco at nearly a dozen smoke shops across the Bay Area

Categories E-cigarettes, News

City Attorney secures settlement against online tobacco retailers that violated flavored tobacco and e-cigarette bans

January 28, 2025January 7, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Court order holds online tobacco retailers accountable for violating city laws that protect youth from harmful tobacco products

Categories E-cigarettes, News

City Attorney sues online tobacco retailers for violating local flavored tobacco ban

January 28, 2025September 4, 2024 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Lawsuit alleges online retailers violated city law intended to protect youth from harmful tobacco use by selling flavored nicotine pouches like “Zyns”

Categories E-cigarettes, News

City Attorney sues online tobacco retailers for violating local flavored tobacco and e-cigarette bans

January 28, 2025December 5, 2023 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Lawsuit alleges online retailers violated city laws intended to protect youth from harmful tobacco use

Categories E-cigarettes, News

San Francisco officials praise anticipated FDA decision to ban Juul e-cigarettes

January 9, 2024June 22, 2022 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Decision follows San Francisco’s actions in safeguarding public health against the harms of e-cigarettes

Categories E-cigarettes, News

Herrera statement on FDA orders for e-cigarettes

September 10, 2021 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
“Now it’s time for the FDA to finish the job and apply the same public health standard to Juul, which is Big Tobacco’s stalking horse and has targeted children.”

Categories E-cigarettes, News

Herrera statement on voters rejecting Juul’s ballot measure

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
San Francisco voters are too smart to be fooled by Juul.

Categories Consumer Protection, Defending S.F. Laws, E-cigarettes, News Tags E-cigarettes, epidemic, Juul, public health, vaping

City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s statement on Juul’s attempt to rewrite election language

September 6, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
“San Francisco’s Department of Elections and its employees have been doing an exemplary job,” Herrera said. “I’m equally confident that our co-defendants are also meeting or exceeding their legal duties.”
“Kevin Burns and other Juul executives have gotten rich peddling poison and addicting a generation of kids to nicotine.”

Categories E-cigarettes, News

Herrera statement on e-cigarette legislation final vote

June 25, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Board of Supervisors passes legislation unanimously on second vote

Categories Consumer Protection, E-cigarettes, Illegal Businesses, News

Herrera statement on e-cigarette legislation passing

June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
The legislation passed unanimously at the Board of Supervisors

Categories E-cigarettes, News

Herrera, Walton introduce package of legislation to protect youth from e-cigarettes

January 19, 2023March 19, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Chicago and New York join SF in urging the FDA to review the safety of e-cigarettes; legislation would bar the sale of e-cigarettes in SF until FDA acts

Categories E-cigarettes, News

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