Good afternoon. My name is jessica baker. Im also an employee at jool labs. I came to work at jool about 2. 5 years ago purely based on two things. One, the people, and two, the mission. Our mission is simple. Its to eliminate combustible cigarettes worldwide. Currently, 1 billion smokers are using cigarettes, and thats a powerful mission, and that was enough to make me inspired to work here. As a child of the 80s, much of my holidays at grandmas house were consumed with big clouds of smoke inside as they all sat around and smoked cigarettes, and me and my brother would hide from the smoke and go upstairs and seek refuge wherever we could. My grandmothers now 83 years old and suffering from copd. There was no alternative to cigarettes at that time, and now shes suffering. Mentally and physically, shes healthy as can be, but when it comes to hur lungs, they are her lungs, theyre failing her due to her longterm smoking habits. My father was a smoker, and the first thing i did when i star
Cigarettes after trying every other alternative was learning about Vape Products about three years ago. I havent touched a cigarette in three years. You talk about Harm Reduction, and thats exactly what this is. Im here for the same reasons same reasons as the people that are worried about our children, our youth. Im on the same side as them. I believe we do need to have Harm Reduction, but theyre looking at this in a wrong way with poor evidence and poor scientific study, so i want to share is a study done by truth. Org which, of course, is pushing an agenda now that makes Vape Products look like theyre pushing it directly to kids, which i dont think thats true and accurate, but this study is done called rethinking nicotine and its effects by raymond niyura, ph. D. Director of science and training at the National Institute for Tobacco Research and policy so its at the truth initiative, truth. Org. And he says through this study, most of the psychological harm attributed to cigarette s
The only reason i quit cigarettes after trying every other alternative was learning about Vape Products about three years ago. I havent touched a cigarette in three years. You talk about Harm Reduction, and thats exactly what this is. Im here for the same reasons same reasons as the people that are worried about our children, our youth. Im on the same side as them. I believe we do need to have Harm Reduction, but theyre looking at this in a wrong way with poor evidence and poor scientific study, so i want to share is a study done by truth. Org which, of course, is pushing an agenda now that makes Vape Products look like theyre pushing it directly to kids, which i dont think thats true and accurate, but this study is done called rethinking nicotine and its effects by raymond niyura, ph. D. Director of science and training at the National Institute for Tobacco Research and policy so its at the truth initiative, truth. Org. And he says through this study, most of the psychological harm at
Businesses are getting hurt, and you know, rent is very high in the city, and the regulations in San Francisco are working. Police actually send in decoys to the liquor stores, and they have sent decoys to my store in the past three months maybe five times. And we have always refused to sell to minors. We have always refused to sell to minors. Youve already banned the menthols, and the flavors of the ecigarettes, and now you want to ban the regular tobaccos . This is not fair to the Small Businesses. We need to survive in the city, and there aren a lot of big businesses in the city. You want my family to get out of the city . I think this is not fair. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is jason, and im a San Francisco Business Owner and been a resident the same amount of time and parent of kids in sfusd who have experience in regards to this jool epidemic as you say. In my experience, i opened a tobacco shop without selling tobacco. Over the time, i was
To the liquor stores, and they have sent decoys to my store in the past three months maybe five times. And we have always refused to sell to minors. We have always refused to sell to minors. Youve already banned the menthols, and the flavors of the ecigarettes, and now you want to ban the regular tobaccos . This is not fair to the Small Businesses. We need to survive in the city, and there aren a lot of big businesses in the city. You want my family to get out of the city . I think this is not fair. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is jason, and im a San Francisco Business Owner and been a resident the same amount of time and parent of kids in sfusd who have experience in regards to this jool epidemic as you say. In my experience, i opened a tobacco shop without selling tobacco. Over the time, i was introduced to Electronic Cigarettes and the possibility of this being a cure, or if not, a cessation device to smoking. I did my research, went into it, pu