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S" S\s� <br />SUBSTITUTE BILL NO. 31-14 <br />ORDINANCE NO. <br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE SOUTH BEND COMMON <br />COUNCIL AMENDING VARIOUS SECTIONS IN ARTICLE 10 OF CHAPTER 14 OF <br />THE SOUTH BEND MUNCIPAL CODE ADDRESSING <br />SMOKEFREE AIR REGULATIONS <br />STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND INTENT <br />The 2006 U.S. Surgeon General's Report, The Health Consequences of Involuntary <br />Exposure to Tobacco Smoke, has concluded that (1) secondhand smoke exposure causes disease <br />and premature death in children and adults who do not smoke; (2) children exposed to <br />secondhand smoke are at an increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), acute <br />respiratory problems, ear infections, and asthma attacks, and that smoking by parents causes <br />respiratory symptoms and slows lung growth in their children; (3) exposure of adults to <br />secondhand smoke has immediate adverse effects on the cardiovascular system and causes <br />coronary heart disease and lung cancer; (4) there is no risk -free level of exposure to secondhand <br />smoke; (5) establishing smokefree workplaces is the only effective way to ensure that <br />secondhand smoke exposure does not occur in the workplace, because ventilation and other air <br />cleaning technologies cannot completely control for exposure of nonsmokers to secondhand <br />smoke; and (6) evidence from peer - reviewed studies shows that smokefree policies and laws do <br />not have an adverse economic impact on the hospitality industry. (U.S. Department of Health <br />and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A <br />Report of the Surgeon General. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for <br />Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health <br />Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2006.) According to the 2010 U.S. Surgeon General's <br />Report, How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease, even occasional exposure to secondhand smoke is <br />harmful and low levels of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke lead to a rapid and sharp <br />increase in dysfunction and inflammation of the lining of the blood vessels, which are implicated <br />in heart attacks and stroke. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, How Tobacco <br />Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking - Attributable Disease: A <br />Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, <br />Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and <br />Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2010.) <br />Numerous studies have found that tobacco smoke is a major contributor to indoor air <br />pollution, and that breathing secondhand smoke (also known as environmental tobacco smoke) is <br />a cause of disease in healthy nonsmokers, including heart disease, stroke, respiratory disease, and <br />lung cancer. The National Cancer Institute determined in 1999 that secondhand smoke is <br />responsible for the early deaths of approximately 53,000 Americans annually. (National Cancer <br />Institute (NCI), "Health effects of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke: the report of the <br />California Environmental Protection Agency. Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph 10," <br />Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute (NCI), August 1999.) <br />
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