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NATIONAL REPORT Tobacco legislation and regulation is constantly under review at the local, state and federal levels. In this monthly roundup,
Convenience Store News highlights the latest proposals and approved changes happening across the United States.
CALIFORNIA
Manhattan Beach The city s ban on the sale of tobacco products went effect on Jan. 1. However, less than a week later the Manhattan City Council granted permission to four retailers to continue to sell tobacco for a temporary period of time. Three were given a June 30, 2021 deadline, and the fourth was given a Dec. 31, 2021 deadline. The Manhattan City Council approved the ban in February 2020, but allowed a temporary reprieve for retailers who faced hardship because of the legislation.
Covid-19 caused the sudden death of a top state lawmaker in New Hampshire.
Richard Hinch was elected speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives at an outdoor meeting Dec. 2. He died a week later.Credit.Elise Amendola/Associated Press
Dec. 10, 2020
The New Hampshire State Legislature was already fiercely divided over the coronavirus when the new Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, Richard Hinch, died suddenly on Wednesday. Then came the news on Thursday that the cause of his death was Covid-19.
Mr. Hinch, who was 71, died just a week after he was sworn in as speaker and about three weeks after an indoor meeting of his caucus that led to several members contracting the virus, an event that Mr. Hinch had tried to play down in public remarks. It was not clear whether he, too, had caught the virus at the caucus meeting.