BALTIMORE —

Baltimore City Council members and community leaders on Monday announced a plan to address public safety and youth access to smoke shops.

City leadership said they're not anti-business, but rather, looking to regulate a new industry. Members of the City Council said they've heard many concerns about the growing number of smoke shops located often near schools and targeting young people.

"There can be nothing more important that protecting the health and safety of our communities and our kids. The over-proliferation of smoke shops throughout our city poses a serious threat," Baltimore City Council President Zeke Cohen said.

"This subject right here that we are dealing with is tearing at the very fabric of all of what we are doing to build up our youth," said Terry "Uncle T"

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