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• 81% who try tobacco first use a flavored product • 87.6% have used a flavored tobacco products (fruit and sweet most popular) • 30% have used e-cigarettes • 20% currently use e-cigarettes • 11% currently use e-cigarettes in school • 79% believe it is easy to obtain e-cigarettes, and of youth who used flavored e- cigarettes: o 74% obtained device from a physical retail location o 52% obtained the device from a social source o 6% obtained the device from the internet • 57% believe it is easy to obtain cigarettes At regular meetings in May, September, October and November 2019, the Youth Commission also learned that: • 68% of current and former smokers start by the age of 18 • Youth experimenting with tobacco products try different types and are extremely price-sensitive • When the Pleasanton Police Department undertook a decoy underage purchase operation in August 2019 from tobacco retailers and tobacco stores in Pleasanton, four of the 29 sites visited sold to persons under 21 [and 2 of those 4 were tobacco stores]5 • Since 2014, e-cigarettes are the most commonly used tobacco product among U.S. middle and high school students, with 5.4 million middle and high school students using e-cigarettes in 2019 Based on concerns about underage use of tobacco products and related health impacts, the Youth Commission recommended that the City Council adopt ordinances to restrict the sale of tobacco products. The minutes of the Youth Commission's November 13, 2019 meeting are included as Attachment 2. Referral to Economic Vitality Committee, Human Services Commission and Planning Commission. After the Youth Commission made its recommendations for restrictions on the sale of tobacco products, the issue was referred to the Economic Vitality Committee (EVC) at its meetings of November 21 and December 19, 2019 (minutes in Attachment 3), the Human Services Commission (HSC) at its meeting of December 4, 2019 (minutes in Attachment 4), and the Planning Commission (PC) at its meeting of January 15, 2020 (minutes in Attachment 5). 'Subsequently, in Feb. 2020 the Police Department undertook another decoy underage purchase operation. Of the 20 sites visited, none sold to persons under age 21.