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Attachment A Regular City Council Meeting Monday, January 11, 2021 Page 18 761 bacco because he was not sure that he wanted Roseville to be the place where peo- 762 ple go necessarily to buy those products. He indicated he was open to discussion 763 on how the City should do this and he does understand the concerns of the local 764 business owners and would welcome Council discussion in relation to those impact 765 and how they might want to table regulations with respect to either the types of 766 flavors or different types of license holders. 767 768 Councilmember Groff indicated his approach to this is that it is a health issue. This 769 is a health issue that has been going on for decades and needed to be address as 770 that. This is an addiction and flavored tobacco increases the likelihood of people 771 becoming addicted. While he knows there are businesses involved, he did not think 772 that putting a dollar amount on health and youth is a wise decision for the Council. 773 774 Groff moved, Strahan seconded, enactment of an Ordinance entitled, ÐAn Ordi- 775 nance Amending Chapter 306, Cigarette and Tobacco Products,Ñ banning all fla- 776 vored, menthol, mint, and wintergreen products. 777 778 Council Discussion 779 780 Councilmember Groff thought there was a lot of input on this including hearing 781 from Rose Hauge about her husband dying. This is what this is about. People die 782 from this product and this is not a product that can be used without becoming ad- 783 dicted to it. He thought as a Council and as a community, it has to be looked at that 784 way. He explained he did speak to several of the business owners and one business 785 owner said that if this is approached as a health issue, then they would never win. 786 That really struck him as an epiphany because the business owners are not looking 787 at this as a health issue and if they are looking at this as only making money, then 788 it does not appeal to him. He is looking at this as a health issue and something the 789 Council can do. He noted this is not going to be the solution to everything as surely 790 some youth will still get the product, but if they could reduce even 10 to 20 percent 791 of youth from getting the product and starting a lifetime additionaddiction, then he 792 thought it was worth it. 793 794 Councilmember Strahan explained she took a lot of notes as people were speaking 795 and in addition to this being a health issue, which she wanted to make sure was 796 pointed out after Dr. Djevi spoke of EVALI, this is the name given by the CDC to 797 the dangerous, newly identified lung disease linked to vaping. As Dr. Djevi stated, 798 people who are in their twenties are being intubated, receiving tracheotomies and 799 ending up in long term care facilities, which are not generally set up to accommo- 800 date twenty-year-olds. She thought the City really needed to see this, not only as a 801 health issue, but also as systemic racism because menthol has been aggressively 802 marketed to people of color. She thought this item called on the Council to reduce 803 harm and as Ms. Pardello stated, we need to find a way to reshape things as a system 804 because to profit off systemic racism and cause harm of others is just not the way 805 they need to see the common good. She thought this is a small measure that the