Smoking and health in California: 6 towns on the record, the pace easing
This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.
Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 8 dated municipal records flagged as smoking and health in California, spanning 6 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.
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The story so far
The record starts in La Mesa, 17 March 2009. Since then 6 California towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Richmond on 24 February 2026.
The last 90 days put 0 meetings on the record, well down from 1 in the 90 days before.
It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Town Council Post Agenda Publication Docume, City Council and Document Center / Codes & Ordinances.
The shape of the movement
Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
Quarter
Meetings
Towns
Sep 2025 to Nov 2025
0
0
Dec 2025 to Feb 2026
3
3
Mar 2026 to May 2026
2
1
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)
0
0
a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Dec 2025 to Feb 2026, with 3 meetings.
The towns on the record6, earliest first
Every California town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
La Mesaearliest 2009-03-17 · 1 meeting · latest 2009-03-17 · the agenda City Council Meeting Agenda With Items 1/28/14
San Pabloearliest 2019-12-17 · 1 meeting · latest 2019-12-17 · the agenda December 17, 2019
Concordearliest 2023-01-01 · 1 meeting · latest 2023-01-01 · the document Tobacco Retailer Ordinance Summary
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Corte Maderaearliest 2026-01-23 · 3 meetings · latest 2026-03-17 · the agenda 2026-03-17 5.A. Public Comment Received After Agenda Publication_COMBINED
Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
Allison Avenue LLCLa Mesa
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN)Richmond
Antioch Development AgencyAntioch
Antioch Police Officers AssociationAntioch
AT&T U-VerseLa Mesa
BodyByBinay.comCorte Madera
California Fuels + Convenience AllianceCorte Madera
CaltransLa Mesa
CFCACorte Madera
Community & Economic Development DepartmentSan Pablo
Marin County Health and Human ServicesCorte Madera
National Institute of Criminal Justice ReformAntioch
PatiCorte Madera
SafewayCorte Madera
Smoke-free Marin CoalitionCorte Madera
TeslaCorte Madera
Tobacco Advocacy & Policy ProjectAntioch
UCSFRichmond
UCSF HealthCorte Madera
WALKSANDIEGOLa Mesa
Yuhong "Sophia" ShiSan Pablo
ZYNsCorte Madera
The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.
A snapshot of a moving record
Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 14 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.
How we can tell you about it ongoing
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Also at this scope: Smoking and health across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.