Products and [speaker not understood]. Thank you. Chair yee, can i just ask the doctors about a number of emails weve been receiving from different people saying that ecigarettes have helped them stop their smoking and were harming a good thing and pushing people towards smoking. But im just wondering if you could address and i think a lot of them are coming from a Nonprofit Group that is a National Group urging them to send us emails and letters. Well, while, you know, the individual reports are there and there are people they may have helped. However, when we look at the whole population, you dont see the association. That means it might help some people, but it also might not help more people. So, thats why youre seeing no association or lower association. It may be helping some, but its actually hurting others. And on average its hurting more people than its helping. Great, thank you. Thank you. Other questions, colleagues . Thank you for the research and your leadership as well. T
Colleagues, can we have a motion to forward this to the full board with recommendation . Yes, so moved. Okay. With no objection, motion passes. [gavel] madam clerk, can you please call item number 2 . Item number 2 is a hearing to consider appointing two members, term ending december 31, 2015, to the sro task force. There are two vacant seats and two applicants. Okay. I will now call the applicants in the order listed on the agenda. Is sam [speaker not understood] here . Come on up. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is sam patel. Im here to apply for seat number 2 on the sro task force. I have 30 years of experience in operating a sro hotel. Currently my company manages several sro buildings, including two not for profit. Ive been serving on the task force since its inception, back in 1992, i believe, and i would like to continue doing so. Thank you. Okay. Any questions . Supervisor tang. Great, thank you, mr. Patel. Just wanted to i mean, given your long experience with the task fo
According to the Surgeon Generals report ~. I just want to read a couple lines from a recent article on the effects of nicotine addiction by dr. Neil ben witnesses who is part of ucsf. Nicotine causes withdrawal, anxiety and stress both of which are powerful incentives to take up smoking again. Cessation of smoking causes he the emergence of withdrawal symptoms, irritability, depressed mood, restlessness and anxiety. The intensity of these moods, mood disturbances is similar to that found in psychiatric outpatients. [speaker not understood], the feeling that there is little pleasure in life can also occur with withdrawal from nicotine like other drugs of abuse. Smoking is a highly efficient smoking an ecigarette is a highly [speaker not understood]. It enters rapidly through the lungs and moves into the brain within second. Rapid rates of absorption and entry into the brain cause a strongly felt rush and they reinforce the effects of the drug. There is considerable drug levels that bas
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,
Another edition of building colleagues, can we have a motion to forward this to the full board with recommendation . Yes, so moved. Okay. With no objection, motion passes. [gavel] madam clerk, can you please call item number 2 . Item number 2 is a hearing to consider appointing two members, term ending december 31, 2015, to the sro task force. There are two vacant seats and two applicants. Okay. I will now call the applicants in the order listed on the agenda. Is sam [speaker not understood] here . Come on up. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is sam patel. Im here to apply for seat number 2 on the sro task force. I have 30 years of experience in operating a sro hotel. Currently my company manages several sro buildings, including two not for profit. Ive been serving on the task force since its inception, back in 1992, i believe, and i would like to continue doing so. Thank you. Okay. Any questions . Supervisor tang. Great, thank you, mr. Patel. Just wanted to i mean, given your long