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identified by science and research to be slowly killing us. our youth, our youth are one of the main reasons why i m involved in this effort. i fear that they are heavily targeted. back in 2013 the beverage companies spent more to promote events and sponsorships specifically targeting our youth than any other food category. now, this prohibition on sweetened beverages and advertising will help us begin to move closer to bridging the gap of the health disparities that exist. i, too, would like to acknowledge a few very talented people that have been working with us. i want to acknowledge deputy city attorney anita wood for her efforts on this legislation. i also would like to recognize yoyo chin on my staff and every advocate, every person of the 56 percent of san franciscoans that voted on this measure, we are doing this for you. we have heard your charge and we supervisor wiener and myself and supervisor mar, are picking up the mantle and charging ahead. the advocates ....
grantees from distributing sugar-sweetened beverages because they are so harmful to people s health. the broad coalition is committed to not only looking at these types of legislation but also addressing other issues with hopefully next steps to pass a soda tax as sometime in san francisco. the last point i d like to make, i think the time has come for san francisco to join other cities and this trio of legislation will help establish us to protect our young people and our public health but also to establish that health is, there s nothing more important than health in our city. thank ?ue ?oo thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor avalos. thank you, madam president. i d just like to add myself as a co-sponsor to all these 3 pieces of legislation and briefly will just say that i am really glad to see that the practices of our city departments are going to be consistent with our public health goals. i think that we ve seen ipbs stases where the city has not lived up to o ....
there s nothing more important than health in our city. thank ?ue ?oo thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor avalos. thank you, madam president. i d just like to add myself as a co-sponsor to all these 3 pieces of legislation and briefly will just say that i am really glad to see that the practices of our city departments are going to be consistent with our public health goals. i think that we ve seen ipbs stases where the city has not lived up to our public health goals but now we are stating them very very clearly. over the past few years in civic center plaza we have had the mountain dew tour come with giant 20-foot bottles advertising mountain dew in front of city center. they have actually brought, i don t know, a whole acre of dirt that they have piled up in front of city hall to be able to spread out over our plaza and they attract people to come and they give samples of mountain dew to the guests who come. this is something that i have actually been very vocal ....
people s health. the broad coalition is committed to not only looking at these types of legislation but also addressing other issues with hopefully next steps to pass a soda tax as sometime in san francisco. the last point i d like to make, i think the time has come for san francisco to join other cities and this trio of legislation will help establish us to protect our young people and our public health but also to establish that health is, there s nothing more important than health in our city. thank ?ue ?oo thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor avalos. thank you, madam president. i d just like to add myself as a co-sponsor to all these 3 pieces of legislation and briefly will just say that i am really glad to see that the practices of our city departments are going to be consistent with our public health goals. i think that we ve seen ipbs stases where the city has not lived up to our public health goals but now we are stating them very very clearly. over the past ....
grantees from distributing sugar-sweetened beverages because they are so harmful to people s health. the broad coalition is committed to not only looking at these types of legislation but also addressing other issues with hopefully next steps to pass a soda tax as sometime in san francisco. the last point i d like to make, i think the time has come for san francisco to join other cities and this trio of legislation will help establish us to protect our young people and our public health but also to establish that health is, there s nothing more important than health in our city. thank ?ue ?oo thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor avalos. thank you, madam president. i d just like to add myself as a co-sponsor to all these 3 pieces of legislation and briefly will just say that i am really glad to see that the practices of our city departments are going to be consistent with our public health goals. i think that we ve seen ipbs stases where the city has not lived up to o ....