06-872ORDINANCE
OF SAINT PAUL, NIINNESOTA
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An ordinance amending chapter 324.07 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code to
prohibit the sale of cigazettes outside the original packaging of twenty (20).
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAINT PAUL DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1.
Section 324.07 of the Saint Paul I,egislative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 324.07. Sales prohibited.
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(bl No person shall sell or dispense cigarette paper or cigarette wrappers from a vending
machine or a motor vehicle. No person shall sell or dispense tobacco from a motor
vehicle.
(c) No person shall activate the remote control or provide tokens for a tobacco vending
machine or sell tobacco to anyone under the age of eighteen (18).
(d) Any violation of this chapter shall subject the licensee to provisions of section 310 and
section 324.10 of the Saint Paul Legislative Code.
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Thts ordinance shall take effect and be in force thirry (30) days following iYS passage, approval
and publication.
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Approval of an Ordinance prohibiting the sale of cigarettes in goups of less than 20 in Saint Paul.
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Initiating Problem, Issues, Oppottunity (Who, What, When, Where, Why):
CurrenNy, LIEP receives neighborhood complaints regazding the sale of single cigazettes. The sale of single cigazettes is a"gray area"
of Ciry Ordinance and State Law. .
Advantages If Approved:
Studies show that the sale of single cigazettes encourage under age smoking.
Disadvantaqes If Approved:
DisadvanWges If NotApproved:
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Efiects of Sa1e of SiaEle Cin�are[tes
Tobacco use is the leading prevenrable cause of death in the Uniced 5kates and a major
caw+e o£increasing heaIth caze costs. The sale of individuai ciga�ttes adds ro this pm6lcm by
encowaging ;routh smoking and promoting the exploitation of wlnerable pogulauons, because
the lawer priCe of these sales, cornpared ro a standard pack of riventy cigarettas, malses them
appealinp tA pnce-sensitive mmors an�i low-income adults.
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"�'he practice of indivicival c.�garette sales is helievec ro have hzgua in the 1934s, wher.
Depression-Era customers lacked tk�a money to buy an entire pack uf cig;�ettes. Evidence
ivdicatea that these sales are stili widespread. A 1993 survey v£storas in Nashvil]c, i'ennzssee
Fou�d p� � ta� stores seiling sin�le cigarettes. C. Archioa:d, Sale of Single C;i�srettes: !� Ne�v
Devetopmen[, 9 E Pediatrics &51 (1993). A siudy of mc,rc than 20Q stores in Catifornia founii tha�
nearly hal�thc stores sold singie cigarettes. L•. A, Klonpft, 7. M. Fritz, H. Candruie, R. W. Riddle
and I,. Tul[y-Payae, The Proble,•n and Socioeulnual Context uf Single-Cigarette Sales, 21!
Joumal of the .4merican MedieaE Association fi I8-20 (1994). While individuat sale3 durin�, the
Depression we:e ciizeceed tbwarci yhe geneiai pu0[ic, individua! sales today are uirected toward
specitic vulnerable groups-primariiy minors and low-incorr.e aornmunities.
Niast cigarette smakers be�in ;making, and 6ecQme addicted to nicotine, beforz they
reach the age uf eighteen. The sa?e oF;ndividual cigarettcs encourages this prob'.em. Young
people, especial)y adoiescents, acc cnore price-sensitive �han adu�ts. It is no� sirpriaing, dierefore,
diat Che C�lifomia snidy described above £ound ti�at that refailers were signif cantly more likely
ro selt single cigarettcs :p mir.nrs than to adults.
Indivtduat sales are ata�ctive m yuung pe�ple for �tasons in addicion t� price. For
children considering exgerimenting with tobacco, huving one ciaazette represents a Iess
intimidating 6rSi step iF.s� auyiztp a whc�le pack. Becausc individual cigaretttS are aften ktpt
behind rhe counter, rather than disalayed openig, and are not pack.aged, the purchase may ha�e
ar infocmaliry that ailows the child to feel :he [ransaciion is less of a"big deal." ti�'hzle :he
warning Sabe3 on standard cigarette packs may have some value in heiping to deter youth 5a1�*�,
"t4osies" have no IabeLs_ In addicion, smgle cigaranes and small packs are incoaspicuous and
easiIy concealed once purchased.
The ralationship benveen individual cigarette sales and youth smuking has been studied
by various expett bodies of inedical and faw enfoecement authorities. These aurltorities hpve ult
cone#udeci that the practice is hazmful to the public health abd 5hpuid he prohibired:
^ The world's tirst public health [reaty, the World Health Qr�nization's new Framcwqrk
Convention on Tobacco Convoi, prescribes appropnate lzgal sTeps for red����ng [obaceo's
impacc an pu6(ie health_ While the Uniced Stac�s has not yet rarifed the trenty, t�vo-thirds
qF the nstions of the worid have atrcady done so. This treary sp�cifically reqcaires
countries ro"end�svqr to prahi6it the sale of ci�arectes individua[Iv or in aznatl packets
w4ich increase the a£fordabilicy of such producu to minars." FLamework Cpnven[io� on
Tobacca Canrroi, Articie i 63.
- In 1996, as part ofa broad et"fort to regulate ci��arcnes, the U.S. Fuud and Drug
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Administrarion progosed fo prahibit the sala of cigaretics in qusntities smalter thaa
hventy, because fhese sates were linkecl to yc�uth smoking. Regulatiqns Resficting tha
Sale and Dist�ibutipn of (.igttrettes and Smokeless Tobacco to Protect C}tildren and
AdoiGSCen�, fil Fed. Reg. 4439fi, at 44(16-44b1? (1946). Although the Supretne Cnurt
later overturned the propused mte on juriadictianal grounds, the Court did nat dispul� thc
merits of fhe prope��t, acknowicd�in� that "tabacco use, patticularly among childrqn and
adotescents, poses perhaps tfie single most significant threat to pubtic health in the
United States." FDA V. Brown & Williasnson Tobacco Coip., 529 U.S. 120,1 S9 (2000}.
Af'tar studying tobscca retailing prac#ices and the'u im}sact on iltegal sales to ytruti�, a
6ipartiban workin� graup of twe[aty-six state attorneys gencsal recommended in 1994 that
the sale of individual etgazettes tac proYubited. Na 8ale: Youth, Tobacco and Respoi�sible
Retailing. Findin�.4 a�xl Recommendations of a Workinn� Cnoup af 3tate Adtomcys
{'ieneral (1994}.
Tha lnsritute of Ivlcdicine of the National Academy oLScicnce5 re¢ommanded in 199�1
that thc practice be prohibited Barbara S. Lync:lt �nd Richvcl J. 43uimie, Ec�s., Growin�;
Up Tobaeco Free: Prevanting Nicotine Addicrion in t:hildren and Youth3 {Na4ional
Academy af Seiences, 1994}.
For thc reasons sug,gested hy these expert recummendations, in$ividual oigatette sales
havc been autlaweci by many Minnesota catxununities, includin�, among athers, $rainurd, C�csn
Rapids, Posston Manl:ato, Medina, Mnuntain imn, Norwoad Young America, Spring Gro��e and
Waeonia, and Hennepin, Nuhbard, Kauabec, L�l:e af the W�e�ds anci Maektt Caunties.
Heyond their effoct on ycruth, individuat cigarette saies encourage cxploitation of low incom�
cnmmunities, cspecially canununities of eplpr, Tolaacco use takes a pacticu(arly heavy toA in
these communities, Sn both human and ecanomic terms. M�y� of these cammunitics arc activety
tazgeted by tobaoco indnstry marke�ing practices. The C:alifornia stufly described above fotind
that the sale of inr3ividqal pigarettes to min�rs w�b twiee as canmion in minariry neighboxhoods
as in wlvte neighborhr�cls. Other reports indicate that individual cigarette sales may b�
particu(arty associatcd with brands of cigarcttes smoke� cli3proportionataly by communities of
co3ar.
Finally, regattiless af t7�e ]dentity of the purchaser, individual sales promote disrespect
fot the iaw, Because individual cigatett�e da nat carry hcalth waming labets, sa required by
tc;dcral taw, 1S U.S. C. ¢1333, these sates are unlawful. Sate ofcigarettes without ihe fedarally-
reqnired wunuig labels i� sge�ifica1ly prohibited bp Minnasotx Statutes §325D.421, Snhd.
1(a}(lj(ii} and (b}(2) (24t}5).