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Ord. 2164 Page 10 Exhibit B The City Council of the City of Pleasanton adopts the following findings regarding health and safety concerns arising from second hand tobacco and marijuana smoke, as well as aerosol from electronic smoking devices, effecting nonsmokers in multifamily rental apartments: WHEREAS, tobacco use causes death and disease and continues to be an urgent public health threat, as evidenced by the following: • Tobacco-related illness is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, accounting for about 443,000 deaths each year; and • Scientific studies have concluded that tobacco use can cause chronic lung disease, coronary heart disease, and stroke, in addition to cancer of the lungs, larynx, esophagus, and mouth; and • The Food and Drug Administration identifies 93 chemicals and chemical compounds found in tobacco products and tobacco smoke as a harmful or potentially harmful carcinogens, respiratory toxicants, cardiovascular toxicants and/or reproductive or developmental toxicants; and • Nicotine is a highly addictive neurotoxin contained in tobacco, and is included in the Proposition 65 list of Chemicals Known to the State to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity; and WHEREAS, secondhand smoke has been repeatedly identified as a health hazard, as evidenced by the following: • The U.S. Surgeon General concluded that there is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke; and • The California Air Resources Board placed secondhand smoke in the same category as the most toxic automotive and industrial air pollutants by categorizing it as a toxic air contaminant for which there is no safe level of exposure; and • The California Environmental Protection Agency included secondhand tobacco smoke on the Proposition 65 list of chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer, birth defects, and other reproductive harm; and WHEREAS, exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke causes death and disease, as evidenced by the following: • Since 1964, approximately 2,500,000 nonsmokers have died from health problems caused by exposure to secondhand smoke; and • Exposure to secondhand smoke increases the risk of coronary heart disease by approximately thirty percent; and