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
So, i know there are lots of ads [speaker not understood]. There are blue, electronic and have pretty flavors. [inaudible]. Thank you. And thanks to all the folks from bydc as well. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im dr. Lucy [speaker not understood]. Im a resident of [speaker not understood] and researcher at the university of california San Francisco. I want to make one point. There is no evidence that Electronic Cigarettes, how theyre used on a National Level help people quit. We published a study at the american journal of Public Health where we surveyed 1800 u. S. Smokers all over the United States and where we found that both people who use Electronic Cigarettes did not have any easier time quitting regular cigarettes than those who didnt. And you will hear a lot of individual stories written to you as told saying ecigarettes help them quit. What does it mean . For every person where there is a story of success, there is more than one person out there for whom ecigarettes did not m
[speaker not understood] from the Youth Leadership institute. Linda boyer chiu from the we willness center susfd. [speaker not understood]. John kreuger. Keith perry. And [speaker not understood]. Mr. Gored an . Good afternoon, supervisors, my name is bob gordon and im proud to have lived in San Francisco 21 years, my smokefree city ~. For many years i helped facilitate a free stop Smoking Program for the Lgbt Community here. My brothers and sisters, mostly in their 40s, 50s and 60s, this program is called the last drag. And time and time again we hear the same stories from those who attend the last drag, and that is that their first exposure to nicotine began at age 15, 16, and at some point they discovered that they were hooked for life. And this is why we really ought to call what were talking about here an adolescent disease. So, any reasonable steps that we can take now to prevent as many young people as possible from a lifetime of addiction to nicotine would make for an intellige
The heartland institute, cato institute, Public Policy research with tea party links have been pushing these policies. It is important that you understand these many of these are deceptively designed to [speaker not understood]. We urge you to protect the Public Health and recognize these cynical influences. Thank you. Thank you. [speaker not understood] and joseph [speaker not understood]. Michael barger, lawrence tam. [speaker not understood]. And i think i already called dr. Darlene bonds. Next speaker. Good afternoon, my name is Amanda Fallon and i am a [speaker not understood]. My colleague conducted a study that was published two days ago in the american journal of Preventive Medicine examining Electronic Cigarette marketing on websites. She found that 71 discuss the use of Electronic Cigarettes as a way to circumvent smokefree policies. Allowing ecigarettes to be smoked indoors is problematic because it may expose bystanders to unknown toxins such as volatile organic compounds,