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<br />ing the risk of a heart attack. Even in (11) Smoking is a potential cause of fires. In
<br />healthy persons, brief exposure can lead parks and outdoor spaces, fire can spread
<br />to changes in the upper airway. to nearby homes and businesses.
<br />(5) Eliminating smoking indoors and in
<br />enclosed spaces fully protects nonsmok-
<br />ers from exposure to secondhand smoke.
<br />Simply separating smokers from nonsmok-
<br />ers, cleaning the air, and ventilating
<br />buildings cannot eliminate exposures of
<br />nonsmokers to secondhand smoke.
<br />Although air cleaners can remove large
<br />particles from smoke, smaller particles
<br />and gases found in secondhand smoke
<br />cannot be removed from the air.
<br />(6) Scientific studies conducted by Stanford
<br />University and others found that outdoor
<br />smoke can reach the same level as indoor
<br />smoke. Persons near an outdoor smoker
<br />can breathe in wisps of smoke that can
<br />be tens or hundreds times more
<br />concentrated that normal background air
<br />pollution levels.
<br />(7) The Americans with Disabilities Act
<br />(ADA) includes respiratory function as a
<br />disability. The ADA requires disabled
<br />persons have access to public places and
<br />workplaces.
<br />(8) The National Institute for Occupational
<br />Safety and Health has concluded that
<br />smoke is an occupational carcinogen.
<br />(9) Nonsmokers who are exposed to
<br />secondhand smoke at work have a 25
<br />percent to 30 percent higher risk of heart
<br />attack and higher rates of death from
<br />cardiovascular disease and cancer, acute
<br />respiratory disease, and measurable
<br />decrease in lung function than persons
<br />not exposed to secondhand smoke at
<br />work.
<br />(10) Secondhand smoke exposure leads to
<br />higher worker absenteeism from respira-
<br />tory disease, lower productivity, higher
<br />cleaning and maintenance costs, increased
<br />health insurance rates, and increased
<br />liability claims for diseases related to
<br />secondhand smoke exposure.
<br />(12) Use of tobacco products also produces
<br />litter that detracts from the beauty of
<br />city parks and increases maintenance
<br />costs of city facilities.
<br />(Code 2003, § 51-1; Ord. No. 78(3rd series), § 1,
<br />8-23-2010)
<br />Sec. 5.16.020. Definitions.
<br />The following words, terms and phrases, when
<br />used in this chapter, shall have the meanings
<br />ascribed to them in this section, except where
<br />the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
<br />City facilities means any building owned or
<br />operated by the city, including owned or operated
<br />outdoor areas of the lot or parcel on which the
<br />building is situated.
<br />Parks means any open or enclosed land and
<br />improvements or facility wherever located which
<br />is owned, leased or operated by the city and
<br />which is reserved, designated or used for a
<br />playground, picnic area, garden area, beach,
<br />bike or walking path, trail, nature preserve,
<br />green space, sports fields, or other recreational
<br />open space area.
<br />Tobacco means any substance or item contain-
<br />ing tobacco leaf, including, but not limited to,
<br />cigarettes; cigars; pipe tobacco; snuff; fine cut or
<br />other chewing tobacco; cheroots; stogies; perique;
<br />granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready -rubbed,
<br />and other smoking tobacco; snuff flowers; caven-
<br />dish; shorts; plug and twist tobaccos; dipping
<br />tobaccos; refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings and
<br />sweepings of tobacco; and other kinds and forms
<br />of tobacco leaf prepared in such manner as to be
<br />suitable for chewing, sniffing or smoking.
<br />Use means smoking, inhaling, exhaling, burn-
<br />ing, or carrying any lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe,
<br />weed, or plant in any manner or in any form;
<br />chewing; sniffing; and spitting.
<br />(Code 2003, § 51-2; Ord. No. 78(3rd series), § 1,
<br />8-23-2010)
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