My name is sean patterson. I am a resident of San Francisco. I started as a smoker when i was probably almost 16. Im now 41. 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 Rese
I am a resident of San Francisco. I started as a smoker when i was probably almost 16. Im now 41. 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 t
A look at where some of these policies belong, a trash can. Clerk thank you, next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is jaime, and im with the association of retail outlets. We strongly oppose this proposed ordinance. We oppose this proposal for the following reasons. It would effectively ban almost all vape Harm Reduction products in San Francisco county, exacerbate the Financial Impact of local retailers, likely harm rather than benefit Public Health and do little or nothing to affect youth. It would only promote illicit sales to those under 21 in the city of San Francisco. This proposal will not affect any sales to minor, and it will only inconvenience adults over 21 by causing them to Purchase Online outside of San Francisco or create an illicit market created by this proposed ban. National studies by the f. D. A. Show that and not from traditional retailers that train employees to follow the law. Enacting this proposal will promote illegal illicit markets for th
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