From: Bolla, Rhonda
To: City Council Public Comments
Subject: FW: [EXTERNAL] Tobacco Prevention Policies for Santa Rosa Date: Monday, July 22, 2024 5:05:27 PM
From:
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2024 5:03 PM
To: _CityCouncilListPublic <[email protected]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Tobacco Prevention Policies for Santa Rosa
Dear Councilmember,
My name is Bob Gordon, a member of Impact Sonoma,
Tobacco Free Sonoma County Community Coalition
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I commend you for considering tobacco prevention
policies that have been passed in many other
communities. Specifically, I’d like to call your attention to the tobacco-free pharmacy provision as part of a
tobacco retail license. Santa Rosa can join 60 other
jurisdictions in California that have already ended the sale of every tobacco product in every pharmacy.
With such a policy, no Santa Rosa pharmacy or store
with a pharmacy inside would ever receive a license to
sell any tobacco product: Costco, Creekside, CVS,
Dollar Drug, Rite Aid, Safeway or Walgreens.
Among the 60 jurisdictions in California, 5 City Councils and the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors have
already passed a provision as part of their Tobacco
Retail License that ends the sale of all tobacco and
electronic smoking devices that incorporate nicotine.
Those 5 City Councils are Cloverdale, Healdsburg,
Petaluma, Sebastopol, Windsor, and as mentioned,
Unincorporated Sonoma County passed by the Board
of Supervisors.
Council Members do have the power to change what a
pharmacy is for a whole new generation of young
people. A pharmacy is a place to get better, not to get cancer (heart or lung disease).
We hope you’ll agree, that in Santa Rosa, Cigarettes &
Pharmacies Don’t Mix.
Sincerely,
-Bob Gordon
https://cigarettesandpharmaciesdontmix.org/
Member, Impact Sonoma, Tobacco Free Sonoma County
Community Coalition