HomeMy WebLinkAbout7.1 SB343January 14, 2020
SB 343
Senate Bill 343 mandates supplemental materials that have
been received by the City Clerk’s office that relate to an
agenda item after the agenda packets have been distributed
to the City Council be available to the public.
The attached documents were received in the City Clerk’s
office after distribution of the January 14, 2020, City Council
meeting agenda packet.
Item 7.1
From: empiresam64@aol.com <empiresam64@aol.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2020 1:29 PM
To: John Stefanski <John.Stefanski@dublin.ca.gov>
Subject: RE: Response to City of Dublin's Retail Tobacco Regulations Letter
January 12, 2020
John Stefanski
Assistant to the City Manager
City Manager’s Office
Dear Mr. Stefanski,
My name is Sadeddin Najjar and I am the current owner of Royal Novelties. I am a smoke shop
owner here in Dublin California and I have a few things to say about the city wanting to ban
flavored tobacco and electronic cigarettes. I believe that the use and sales of flavored tobacco
electronic cigarettes should be banned because it brings underaged community to enter the smoke
shop and not just mine but the others in the area as well. I own the biggest smoke shop in the area
and am having trouble with the underage community. They come in and ask for flavored tobacco
and electronic cigarettes and they assume that I will sell it to them, when I DO NOT sell them any
sort of tobacco or products. I turn them away all day long and even card them and send them out of
my business. Having these products attracts them to come into the store and even my employees
have gotten caught selling to them when I wasn’t in the store and received a ticket for selling them
a product, but unintentionally because they would come in suddenly when we are busy and they
didn’t realize that we forgot to ask for ID because they made a mistake. I made sure they cleared the
tickets legally and they even went to a special school to help clear their names and the tickets. I
don’t want to jeopardize my business and investments. We do not want to have this problem and in
order to solve this problem it would be to ban flavored tobacco and electronic cigarettes. It would
stop all the underaged community from entering the businesses such as mine and others and help. I
even get false Yelp reviews that state I sell to underage and I do not sell to them. They get carded
and turned away and in return they post false reviews. Banning these products will stop them from
entering and making false accusations.
Mr. Stefanski please take in consideration of banning these products to help not just the city, but the
local businesses who really mean well and want to help clean the community and protected. We are
doing our best to turn the underage community away, but it will be more helpful if these items get
banned from being sold here in Dublin. In having these bans, it will stop the underage community
from entering the stores and making purchases and lessen the amount of smoking happening from
that community. I completely support the City of Dublin and their final decisions on this situation
and hope that they will follow through and ban these items.
Sincerely,
Sadeddin Najjar
Sadeddin Najjar
Owner of Royal Novelties
7381 Amador Valley Blvd,
Dublin, Ca, 94568