>> good morning, everybody. >> let me start by triathlon all 6 it to bring attention how big tobacco trying to hook the new generations on tobacco produces and tobacco companies appeal to the public with with

threatening decades of people. a few years ago san francisco put children first and young people first and banning the sale of flavored tobacco products to rest our space and city have enforced against brick-and-mortar rashlt by online arrangements are the nexus next frontier on the study was experienced today, our city attorney's office has announced a lawsuit against three california companies by selling flavored tobacco products online to people in san francisco and you'll hear the press we have some of the products in front of us and after the press veteran you will see the three meanwhile, one incorporated the technical an llc and the smokey

an llc sell a variety of tobacco products and e circumstances to commissioner green and one of the online sellers with not ship products to the jurisdictions the website of those have two indication will not ship the products. in study by office each defendant sold to our office and fruit or flavors designed to appeal to young people like strawberry and have an he will and all monday and shipped them to the city in violation of the law we are bringing reputes i lawsuits to clear message to the tobacco retailers will not be tolerated in san francisco. we're going bringing to lawsuit to protect the lawsuit especially you from the health risks of tobacco this year alone mill middle school

high schools students have currently using e significance with 89 percent of flavored products over 20 percent of our high school students have tried e cigarettes we're bringing to lawsuits to shop the tobacco companies through their flagrant disregard of the law and seeking the defendants past violations of the law. now to address this public health crises the advocates and health professionals behind me in the city and state have worked tirelessly, tirelessly against the tobacco companies and a number of people i introduce each of the affair speakers but thank you for the organizations campaign for tobacco for kids represented ken gibbs today

thank you and a little known fact i worked with this organization they're work as literally saved miles of lives i want to thank the to for the work (clapping.) and for its work in meeting and global listed advocacy because of our vocabulary our first speaker will pass a law that is critical to the lawsuit. working with my preserve dennis herrera and spear hesitate did local law in retail of e cigarettes thank you for being a vocal champion (clapping.) thank you, city attorney good morning, everyone you first of all, we know how along the fight has been. tobacco big tobacco that's been in the city and

nationwide go back to in 1998 we had all the first first commissioners to take resources from tobacco and equate young people not to use tobacco and then come to find in 2018 that true lab is here in san francisco targeting our children and making sure that they can doing everything we can to addict them to a lifetime of tobacco use we gathered together and figure out hard and goat egging e on the other hand, cigarettes band from san francisco and across the state and across the country and eventually internationally and everyone who understands their directly targeting our young people seen the data and demonstrates that at the focused on making sure the youngest children in our city will become

and i indicted and now we have every responsible company doing the same thing and articulating our residents and articulating our young 0 people by trying to skirt our laws and by products online three come directly into san francisco we're not going to take down for people skirting around our laws and thank you, city attorney chu for bringing this lawsuit and want to thank all of my colleagues, all my sports here with us today for fire hydrant because this lawsuit is important. because we need to make sure that not only do those big companies not 25eshg9 our residents here but didn't happen anything in the nation and for too long that people are being using online platforms to skirt laws and

target residents and in different cities we're going to make sure they don't get away with that here in san francisco. we have it continue to protect people we understand the harms of the cigarettes and what is necessary do to the target young people and lead them to a lifetime of tobacco so just like we passed a law in 2019 and fought against big tobacco to make sure they don't over turn laws we're going to do did same thing with the tobacco companies and thank you, for coming up in support of this law and fight and let big companies and corporation know we'll not tlofrnt targeting our young people thank you, (clapping.) thank you, supervisor walton to your leadership we had a number of policymakers part of fight.

>> thank you leah accordingly our extraordinary banning tobacco products and someone next in the city attorney's office like to invite up matt dorsey chp you thank you, city attorney chu. and, you know. more than 25 years ago there was a former city attorney that filed had becomes a groundbreaking lawsuit against big tobacco and hold them accountable and in starting that created a altercation it's city attorney's office of leadership analyzed against big tobacco and the chambers has harms is causing something that dennis herrera continued i'm proud and grateful it is something the city attorney david chiu it the national leader against big

tobacco honored to be here as someone working with the district attorney's office city attorney's office for years and occurred to me a furious i had the opportunity to stand with another important leader my clearance shamming anyone walton and the labs was proposed to spend this city got ground and spending millions and shadow shoulder to shoulder with some a ragtag bunk 7 advocates we didn't know governor 0 bloomington burger about coming come up but i'm proud of shamming anyone it stands in history as is biggest 2023 as lost for big tobacco several thousands of dollars we spent per vote a losing effort sends a

powerful message how much san francisco protects kids and others from the harms of tobacco thank you, very much to be port of that and hand side. >> shoulder to shoulder with folks for years to come. thank you. >> thank you. matt dorsey and would not be successful without the leadership the san francisco medical associate and past president the leader in our stay and country (clapping.) >> thank you doctors. >> is always the national heart association and cancer society. >> (calling names.) >> and others and take a a moment to thank the department of health staffers with the endorsement of laws and the next who represents the doctors leading this work please join me

in welcoming the san francisco health officer. >> (clapping) good morning. my name is did susan philip the health officer for the city and county of san francisco and the direct the population health against or distinction at department of health i'm so happy to be here with the zoo david chiu and others and our wonderful leadership and all of you for decades the department of health has sought so reduce the access to public tobacco and provides services to help people to quit in recent years enforced the restriction of product sales in san francisco. this labor library mu-n thalamus and cheri are marketed to our communities of color and including other

vaping products this restriction is critical to protect the happy earth day of those in 20 percent of high school students and others eying e seconds are a high concentration of nick tone and can harm the developing brain. adversely effecting the attention and additional starts lifetime addiction before 18 continued to have serious illness of heart disease and flavored product is easily to start and harder to quit i applaud city attorney for protecting the health of san franciscans and for the continued advocacy of supervisor walton and dorsey with the leadership. san francisco adults

can go to sf quit.org and call at 62867678 request a director howard together we'll continue to help the community if tobacco smoking related issues. thank you. (clapping.) thank you, dr. philip and colleagues for your tremendous work and our efforts will the no be successful without the grassroots for young people the first nonprofit board i joined in any 20s which for decades to train young people to lead comments and stand up for generations i met the next speaker was one of the young

applicants come on up. >> (clapping) good morning, everybody. um, you know. the youth leaders institutes along with the city of san francisco buildings in the voice tobacco is an issue and a justice issue we've come a long way reducing the access it critical for targeted from the to destroys and culture vat another generation of young people the to destroy masks the hash environment and um, young adults to think they vap and sentencing them to a lifetime of vaping and this may sound

harmless but have done traded ingredients and dangers to our community and public health. an interesting fact vap are three times more likely to somebody cigarettes within a year and the lierpdz like the folks support of efforts of david chiu and those on stage to reducing accessed to the abstract retailers and again, it will not stop we can't either thank you, (clapping.) thank you. so our last speaker is the more important here because of impact of the actions everyone or of omicron tobacco retailers and the next generation is the leader.

>> (clapping) good morning you my name is (unintelligible). >> i'm 23-year-old i was born and raised in the bay area i will be congratulating into college and have been in the er merging community leader with over a year. i help lead the community action model program where people are working to address the negative feedback and the policy alternatives that protect the community health i'd like to not referring to the ceremonial use the problem is that tobacco that the tobacco destroy prioritizing the young people tobacco retail marketing strategy specifically charges

the next door communities more than any other. and current as of policy young people are still using commercial tobacco products when i was 5 i opposed my first book history one of my interests i was 7 when the ceremonial tobacco was introduced i had to navigate negative associations that came from culture bias and presentations. i was 11 many i saw the impact of commercial tobacco products. that commercial products had on my peers and had consequences. and at 13 my turn to learn about tobacco. how significant to indigenous communities and the simple truth it is introduced and promoted and became a wide

commodity. i have seen this circle happen to my young people. the young leaders in and the program have believed in a commercial free tobacco generations and commercial tobacco anyone born after january 1st, 2005, would suggested policy implementation within the next 5 years or by january 1st, 2026, with our support with we can unite and have solutions for people now and a positive change for future generations. thank you. (clapping.) thank you. i have a couple of closing comments one thanks to the incredible legal professionals from our city attorney's office had folks from three teams in the office our

teams are investigation team and the healthcare team and specifically shout out to julie iceberg and julie. >> (calling names.) >> carol constituting for your great work thank you, guys. >> at the beginning of the session we have some of the products available here in the media wants to take photos of them and i will reiterate products not only not welcome in san francisco, they are legal to sell or distribute the last thing to say thanks to everyone who is standing with us and the folks have been working on the issues in to throughout the years together we will hopefully have some day soon a tobacco free generation. with that, thank you for being here. and folks are available for questions and interviews if you

like. thank you very much. [music] >> san francisco is known as yerba buena, good herb after a mint that used to grow here. at this time there were 3 settlements one was mission delores. one the presidio and one was

yerba buena which was urban center. there were 800 people in 1848 it was small. a lot of historic buildings were here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. he spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. his father and brother in new orleans. we know him for san francisco's history.

establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. was not california yet and was not fully san francisco yet. >> because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico, there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. he was part of the peek deliberations and am bas doorship to create the state of california a vice council to mexico. mexico granted him citizenship. he loaned the government of san francisco money. to funds some of the war efforts to establish the city itself and the state, of course. he established the first hotel here the person people turned to often to receive dignitaries or

hold large gatherings established the first public school here and helped start the public school system. he piloted the first steam ship on the bay. a big event for san francisco and depict instead state seal the ship was the sitk a. there is a small 4 block long length of street, owned much of that runs essentially where the transamerica building is to it ends at california. i walk today before am a cute side street. at this point t is the center what was all his property. he was the person entrusted to be the city's first treasurer. that is i big deal of itself to have that legacy part of an african-american the city's first banker. he was not only a forefather of

the establishment of san francisco and california as a state but a leader in industry. he had a direct hahn in so many things that we look at in san francisco. part of our dna. you know you don't hear his anymore in the context of those. representation matters. you need to uplift this so people know him but people like him like me. like you. like anyone who looks like him to be, i can do this, too. to have the city's first banker and a street in the middle of financial district. that alone is powerful. [music]

>> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> welcome all. >> good morning. this is fire commission regular meeting december 13, 2023 and the time is 904. this meeting is being held in person. members of the public may attend the meeting to observe and provide public comment at the physical meeting location or by calling, 1-415-655-0001