LAGUNA HILLS
The City Council is scheduled to decide whether to impose an ordinance restricting tobacco sales in the city, according to a staff report. The proposed law would require tobacco vendors to place cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco behind their store counters to help prevent minors from illegally purchasing them.
“The salesperson would need to pass them the cigarettes and would therefore be more apt to ask for IDs,” said Mary Carlson, city clerk.
The council decided to consider the law after hearing a presentation in May from the Community Coalition Against Substance Abuse.
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