AFTER VIEWING RESEARCH on the use of tobacco products among Marin County youth, the county Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to authorize an ordinance that would increase the price of cigarettes and ban the sales of vaping devices.

If given final approval by the board at its meeting Nov. 18, the new law will allow cities and towns within Marin County to pass individual ordinances by July 1, and countywide enforcement will start by Sept. 1 of next year. That would be followed by consistent enforcement through existing agreements with the county Sheriff’s Office to ensure compliance among retailers.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.