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Exhibit A Chapter 9.32 RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESSIBILITY TO CIGARETTES AND OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS 9.32.010 Legislative findings and declarations. The city council hereby finds and.determines that the adoption of this chapter is necessary to the promotion of the public health, safety and welfare. Each of the reasons set forth below provides a separate and independent basis for the council's adoption of this chapter. A. Substantial scientific evidence supports the causal relationship between using tobacco products and the deadly diseases such as lung cancer, chronic bronchitis, heart disease, emphysema and other types of cancer. The Surgeon General of the United States ,has determined that smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in this countryand as . of .20-14 42 million adults and 3 million middle school and high school students continue to smoke: B. An estimated annual 3440;000 deaths'in the state of California and 434,175 .1e fhz mare caused by eigafette-smoking related illnesses each year per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The estimated annual eeenomieburden o tha.stat C. 90 peMent Of GigaFette smoking initiation oeeuFs betNeen the ages. of none thFeUo wears and many ch„dr " are pagiGUla,�„y attracted -to e-GagaFettesln 2017,.the CDC found. that'19.5% of. U.S. high school youth reported currently using any tobacco product. D. Minors currently have ready access to cigarettes and other.tobacco products as.a result of noncompliance with existing laws that prohibit the sale of such tobacco products to minors, low-priced small package tobacco products, and the widespread availability of cigarette vending machines, the free distribution of tobacco products in public places, and seeing other minors with e -cigarettes in -public parks or other youth gathering .areas. E. The free distribution of cigarettes and other tobacco products encourages people to begin smoking and using tobacco products and thereby become addicted to the habit, discourages people from quitting smoking, and tempts those who had quit smoking to begin smoking again.. Encouraging smoking and discouraging those who are currently smoking from overcoming the habit endangers the public health by leading more people into habits thatcause illness and death. F. Free distribution of cigarettes.an.d other.tobacco product promotes unsightly litter, thereby. increasing the costs to the public in cleaning the streets; and also causes pedestrian traffic. congestion. G. The compelling purpose and intent of this chapter includes: 1. To prevent young people from using nicotine until they are mature and capable of making an informed and rational decision; 2..To reduce significantly the ability of young people from illegally obtaining tobacco products by banning cigarette vending machines,, and -prohibiting the free distribution of tobacco products in public places, and. banning low-priced small packages of tobacco. products which are more affordable to youth; 3. To reduce the ability of young people to possess e -cigarettes 'in public parks or other public places where youth. gather, as that may influence other youth to try:such tobacco products; and 3