In making these findings, the City Council accepts the conclusions and recommendations of: the Institute of Medicine’s report, “Public Health Implications of Raising the Minimum Age of Legal Access to Tobacco Products” (2015), the U.S. Surgeon General reports, “E-cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults” (2016), “The Health Consequences of Smoking-50 Years of Progress” (2014); the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in their studies, “Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students—United States, 2011-2015,” and “Selected Cigarette Smoking Initiation and Quitting Behaviors Among High School Students, United States, 1997”; and of the following scholars in these scientific journals: Xin Xu et al., Annual Healthcare Spending Attributable to Cigarette Smoking: An Update, Am. J. Prev. Med. 48(3): 326-33 (Mar. 2015); Giovino GA, “Epidemiology of Tobacco Use in the United States,” Oncogene (2002) 21, 7326-40; Khuder SA, et al., “Age at Smoking Onset and its Effect on Smoking Cessation,” Addictive Behavior 24(5):673-7, September-October 1999; D'Avanzo B, et al., “Age at Starting Smoking and Number of Cigarettes Smoked,” Annals of Epidemiology 4(6):455-59, November 1994; Chen, J & Millar, WJ, “Age of Smoking Initiation: Implications for Quitting,” Health Reports 9(4):39-46, Spring 1998; Everett SA, et al.; the Minnesota Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee's report, “2016 Annual report to Governor Mark Dayton and the Minnesota State Legislature (2016). (Amended, Bill No. 2013-19; Bill No. 2018-6).
[Section 4-901,added by Ord. No .22-06, effective August 4, 2022.]