After years of going after cigarette smoke, Dublin is setting its sights on the source. Tuesday, the City Council will begin discussing laws that could make Dublin one of the toughest cities in the Bay Area on smoking tax free Sobranie cigarettes and tobacco products.
Council members are scheduled to begin the process to establish a minimum distance future tobacco retailers can be from places where children are present and a licensing fee for all tobacco retailers. It could be months before the council votes on an ordinance.
"We are trying to do what we can to limit tobacco exposure to kids," said Dublin Mayor Tim Sbranti, who will be in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday at a mayors' conference. "These (types) of ordinances will help with that."
