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WHEREAS, the CDC reports that cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure (see The Health Consequences of Smoking — 50 Years of Progress:A Report of the Surgeon General(2014) U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services); and WHEREAS, the CDC also advises that each day about 2,000 people younger than 18 years smoke their first cigarette, and over 300 people younger than 18 years become daily cigarette smokers; WHEREAS, it is in the community's public health and safety interest to reduce underage use of tobacco products, in particular by lessening the availability of and exposure to flavored tobacco products and electronic smoking devices, as well as enforce tobacco sales and underage possession restrictions. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Finds that the amendment to the Municipal Code has no possibility to have a significant effect on the environment per Title 14 California Code of Regulations §15061(b)(3) as persons age twenty-one and older can obtain flavored tobacco and electronic smoking devices in other jurisdictions and on-line, and other tobacco sales can continue at existing tobacco retailers and tobacco stores. Section 2. Finds that these amendments to the Municipal Code conform with the following provisions of the General Plan's Public Facilities and Community Programs Element regarding Human Services: • Goal 9: Promote a healthy community and a strong community support system. • Policy 21: Promote a healthy community through the provision of health and mental health facilities and services, and healthy community design. • Policy 24: Facilitate the provision of safe, accessible youth activities, facilities and services. • Program 24.1: Support the Youth Commission in its study of youth needs in Pleasanton. Section 3. Amends Municipal Code Chapter 9.32 Restrictions on Accessibility to Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products and Title 18 Zoning as set forth in the attached Exhibit A. Section 4. A summary of this ordinance shall be published once within fifteen (15 days after its adoption in "The Valley Times", a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of Pleasanton, and the complete ordinance shall be posted for fifteen (15) days in the City Clerk's office within fifteen (15) days after its adoption. Section 5. This ordinance shall be effective thirty (30) days after its passage and adoption; but the provisions amending Pleasanton Municipal Code §§9.32.030 [prohibition on 2