my name is sean patterson. i am a resident of san francisco. i started as a smoker when i was probably almost 16. i m now 41. the only reason i quit cigarettes after trying every other alternative was learning about vape products about three years ago. i haven t touched a cigarette in three years. you talk about harm reduction, and that s exactly what this is. i m here for the same reasons same reasons as the people that are worried about our children, our youth. i m on the same side as them. i believe we do need to have harm reduction, but they re 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 they re pushing it directly to kids, which i don t think that s 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 institu
i am a resident of san francisco. i started as a smoker when i was probably almost 16. i m now 41. the only reason i quit cigarettes after trying every other alternative was learning about vape products about three years ago. i haven t touched a cigarette in three years. you talk about harm reduction, and that s exactly what this is. i m here for the same reasons same reasons as the people that are worried about our children, our youth. i m on the same side as them. i believe we do need to have harm reduction, but they re 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 they re pushing it directly to kids, which i don t think that s 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
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 i m 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 on-line 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 illic
good afternoon. my name is jessica baker. i m 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. it s to eliminate combustible cigarettes worldwide. currently, 1 billion smokers are using cigarettes, and that s a powerful mission, and that was enough to make me inspired to work here. as a child of the 80 s, much of my holidays at grandma s 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 grandmother s now 83 years old and suffering from copd. there was no alternative to cigarettes at that time, and now she s suffering. mentally and physically, she s healthy as can be, but when it comes to hur lungs, they are her lungs, they re failing her due to her long-term smoking habits. my father was a smoker, and the first
cigarettes after trying every other alternative was learning about vape products about three years ago. i haven t touched a cigarette in three years. you talk about harm reduction, and that s exactly what this is. i m here for the same reasons same reasons as the people that are worried about our children, our youth. i m on the same side as them. i believe we do need to have harm reduction, but they re 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 they re pushing it directly to kids, which i don t think that s 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 it s at the truth initiative, truth.org. and he says through this study, most of the psychological harm attribu