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ATTY/2024/ORD.0012/CC ORD AMENDING MUNI CODE CH 15 (SMOKING REGULATIONS) <br />REV: 01-14-25 JB <br />Page 1 of 3 <br />ORDINANCE 2544 <br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD <br />CITY AMENDING REDWOOD CITY MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER 15 <br />(SMOKING REGULATIONS) TO ADOPT NEW PROHIBITIONS ON <br />SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES, EXPAND AND STRENGTHEN THE <br />ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTY PROVISIONS, AND CONFORM WITH <br />STATE LAW <br />WHEREAS, the State of California became the first state in the country to ban <br />smoking in nearly every workplace and in indoor public spaces in 1995 though California <br />Labor Code Section 6404.51; and <br />WHEREAS, the California legislature continues to update the State’s smoking laws <br />and regulations, including an amendment to Labor Code Section 6404.5 eliminating the <br />smoking prohibition exemption for up to 20% of the guestroom accommodations in a <br />hotel, motel, or similar transient lodging establishment effective as of January 1, 2024; <br />and <br />WHEREAS, tobacco has a well-documented history of negative health and social <br />impacts on individuals and communities 2; and <br />WHEREAS, exposure to secondhand smoke anywhere has negative health <br />impacts, including outdoors3; and <br />WHEREAS, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. <br />Department of Health and Human Services estimate that exposure to secondhand smoke <br />causes an estimated 41,000 deaths each year 4; and <br />WHEREAS, when the California Air Resources Board designated tobacco smoke <br />as a toxic air contaminant, it was based on research that demonstrated that when smoking <br />occurs outdoors in settings adjacent to government buildings, office complexes and <br />1 California Tobacco Laws that Reduce ETS Exposure | California Air Resources Board. (n.d.). Accessed December 19, <br />2024. https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/environmental-tobacco-smoke/california-tobacco-laws-reduce- <br />ets-exposure. <br />2 U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Why Tobacco Products are Addictive. Accessed November 6, 2024. <br />https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/health-effects-tobacco-use/nicotine-why-tobacco-products-are-addictive. <br />3 Pamela Kaufman et al., Not Just ‘a Few Wisps’: Real-Time Measurement of Tobacco Smoke at Entrances to Office <br />Buildings, 20 Tobacco Control 212 (2011), https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/20/3/212. <br />4 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking: 50 Years of Progress. A <br />report of the Surgeon General, Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease <br />Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking <br />and Health, 2014. Printed with corrections, January 2014.