The City Council of Santa Rosa, California will be holding a hearing this afternoon regarding the ability to smoke if you live in an apartment building or multi-family complex. The current draft of an ordinance would make it Illegal to smoke indoors if you do not live in a free-standing building. In August, 2014 the city enacted various smoking bans and announced support for the above measure. Santa Clara, CA is home to 120,000 residents […]
Santa Clara County, California which includes cities such as Cupertino and San Jose has become the first jurisdiction in the western Unites States to ban the sale of flavored tobacco. The Board of Supervisors approved the new law on Tuesday night that prohibits general retailers from selling flavored tobacco in unincorporated areas within the county. Retailers who sell the tobacco will have to comply with the ban within 90 days and the Department of Environmental […]
The US Patent and Trademark Office has sent notice to Santa Cruz cigars, the makers of Gran Habano. The Trademark office states that Gran Habano has mislead the public via use of the word Habano. In the document they believe that the company is attempting to mislead the public into believing they are selling cigars from Cuba. Santa Clara which utilizes tobacco grown in Honduras and Nicaragua is fighting this accusation which was obviously put into […]