Boulder City Council on Tuesday made the first move toward banning sales of flavored nicotine and tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes, in the city.

With approval of the council consent agenda, the new tobacco limits went forward and will return to council on Aug. 13 for a scheduled second reading. Raising the legal age to purchase any tobacco or nicotine product to 21 also is included in the updated regulations.

The action also moved forward two potential new municipal tobacco sales taxes that council may have to choose between when deciding what to ask voters on the November ballot.

One, if passed by voters, would place a 15-cent-per-cigarette tax on traditional smokes that would remain eligible for legal purchase in the city under the proposed banned, along with a 40% of sale price tax on other tobacco and nicotine products. The other would exclude cigarettes from the new tax, and just put the 40% duty on non-cigarette tobacco and nicotine products.