(A) Because the city recognizes that the sale of commercial tobacco, tobacco-related devices, electronic delivery devices and nicotine or lobelia delivery products to persons under the age of 18 violates both state and federal laws; and because studies, which the city accepts and adopts have shown that youth use of any commercial tobacco product has increased to 26.4% in Minnesota; and because nearly 90% of people who use tobacco start before they have reached the age of 18 years, and that almost no one starts using tobacco after age 25 and because studies show that youth and young adults arc especially susceptible to commercial tobacco product availability and advertising at tobacco retail environments; and because commercial tobacco use has been shown to be the cause of many serious health problems which subsequently place a financial burden on all levels of government, this chapter is intended to regulate the sale of commercial tobacco, tobacco-related devices, electronic delivery devices and nicotine or lobelia delivery products for the purpose of enforcing and furthering existing laws, to protect youth and young adults against the serious health effects associated with use and initiation, and to further the official public policy of the state to prevent young people from starting to smoke, as stated in M.S. § 144.391, as it may be amended from time to time.
(B) In making these findings, City Council accents the conclusions and recommendation of 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) and Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults (2012); the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in their studies, Tobacco Use Among Middle arid High School Students - United States, 2011-2015 (2016), and Selected Cigarette Smoking Initiation and Quitting Behaviors Among HiBh School Students, United States, 1997(1998); and of the following scholars in these scientific journals: Chen, J., & Millar, W. J. (1998), Age of smoking initiation: implications for quitting, Health Reports, 9(4), 39-46, D’Avanzo, B., La Vecchia, C., & Negri, E. (1994), Age at starting smoking and number of cigarettes smoked. Annals of Epidemiology, 4(6), 455-459, Everett, S. A., Warren, J. W., Sharp, D., Kann, L., Huston, C. G., Crossett, L. S. (1999), Initiation of cigarette smoking and subsequent smoking behavior among U.S. high school students. Preventive Medicine, 29(5), 327-333; Giovino, G. A. (2002). Epidemiology of tobacco use in the United States, Oncogene, 27(48), 7326-7340: Khuder. S. A., Daval. H. H., Mutgi (1999). Age at smoking, onset and its effect on smoking cessation. Addictive Behaviors. 24(5). 673-677; Luke, D. A., Hammond, R. A., Combs, T., Sore. A., Kasman, M., Mack- Crane, A., Henricksen, L., (2017). Minnesota Department of Health. (2018), Data Highlights from the 2017 Minnesota Youth Tobacco Survey, Saint Paul, MN: Tobacco Control Legal Consortium, (2006). Xu, X., Bishop, E. E., Kennedy, S. M., Simpson., S. A., & Pechaeek, T. F. (2015). Annual healthcare spending attributable to cigarette smoking: an update, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 48(3), 326-333, copies of which are adopted by reference.
(Prior Code, § 512.01) (Ord. 961, passed 09-09-2019)