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Board advances ordinance to ban smokeless tobacco at stadiums and public athletic fields
Summary
The Board of Supervisors advanced an ordinance on first reading to prohibit smokeless tobacco at baseball stadiums and city athletic fields, citing public-health research and youth initiation risks; the item passed the committee and the board's first reading unanimously.
The Board of Supervisors on April 21 moved forward an ordinance to ban smokeless tobacco products at stadiums, sports arenas and public playing fields across San Francisco. The item passed unanimously on its first reading.
Supervisor Mark Farrell, the ordinance's author, said new research from the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education shows smokeless tobacco significantly increases risks of oral and pancreatic cancers, gum…
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