In the coming weeks, the Cleveland City Council will consider a number of tobacco-related proposals that could have widespread effects in Ohio’s second largest city. At Monday’s meeting, the council heard a presentation from the Health and Human Services Committee and Councilman Joe Cimperman, which is seeking to do four things: stop hiring smokers for city jobs, raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco to 21-years-old, regulate hookah lounges within city limits and limit the sale of flavored tobacco products to tobacco-only retailers in an attempt to get them out of convenience stores and places frequented by minors. While nothing was formally decided at Monday’s meeting, a work group was formed with the task of presenting a formal proposal to the council at its Dec. 7 meeting, according to a report from WJW-TV. Cleveland is home to approximately 390,000 people.
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