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sfexaminer.com – 9 de diciembre de 2014 – EEUU

SF approves 50 percent reduction in tobacco-selling stores

It could take up to 15 years to cut The City’s nearly 1,000 tobacco permits in half after the Board of Supervisors approved legislation Tuesday restricting the number issued. - MIKE KOOZMIN/2012 S.F.

It could take up to 15 years to cut The City’s nearly 1,000 tobacco permits in half after the Board of Supervisors approved legislation Tuesday restricting the number issued.

Hundreds of businesses currently hold city permits to sell tobacco in San Francisco's poorest neighborhoods, but only a handful are in more affluent areas.

Faced with this disparity, a group of San Francisco youths with the nonprofit Youth Leadership Institute has worked since 2008 to impose density controls on tobacco permits. On Tuesday, that dream came true with the Board of Supervisors' unanimous approval of the Tobacco Sales Reduction Act.

The law imposes a cap of 45 tobacco-selling permits issued for each of the 11 supervisor districts in The City. For some, that would be a dramatic decrease.

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