Dear Mayor and Council Members:

My name is Blythe Young, I am a Community Advocacy Director for The American Heart Association and a Sacramento Resident. The American Heart Association supports strengthening the City of Sacramento’s Tobacco Retail License Ordinance through the removal of the “healthy food exemption” and considering additional best practice elements. To achieve the City's goal of reducing tobacco use, it is vital to close this loophole that has allowed for an increase in the number of retailers and has no clear definition of "healthy food". Further strengthening of this policy will reduce access to the products that are the tobacco industry’s key strategy for targeting and addicting new smokers, Sacramento’s youth.
While Sacramento was a leader in 2018 with the passage of a Tobacco Retail License, the policy could be strengthened to 2025 standards by including: a minimum of one codified compliance inspection per year; a fee that covers the full enforcement costs for annual compliance inspections; an explicit statement that the owner/operator is responsible for any monetary fines; an explicit statement that individuals will not be punished for purchase, use or possession.
Cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, claiming on average 480,000 lives each year. Evidence shows that smoking increases the risk for heart disease and stroke. It increases the risk for blood clots, decreases the ability to exercise, and decreases the good cholesterol in our bodies. The best way to prevent tobacco-related illness and death is to prevent people from starting to smoke in the first place.
Closing the loophole created by the “healthy food exemption” and considering additional elements to strengthen the TRL will help protect our community from tobacco addiction and is crucial to preventing tobacco-related death and disease. The American Heart Association respectfully asks for your support of this vital amendment.
Sincerely, Blythe

*SPECIAL NOTE THE SHELTERS AND HOTELS NEED TO STOP ABUSING SERVICE ANIMAL RIGHTS. THE DOGS ARE DOGS THEY ARE GOING TO BARK.

Stop violating people's rights because they do not have a home, you are spending money on things that allow others to pursue happiness.
THE POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN will continue!
We demand that you stop using the police to bully people. "Give us your blanket or go to jail"-this is what you promote? There are no housing options, there is no room in the shelters-taking the little property they have will not get them into a house. How dare you do this to the people you are supposed to represent! How dare you say you are for us! You are against us!

In December 1967, Dr. King had announced a new campaign, to bring attention to issues faced by poor Americans of all backgrounds. He envisioned a march on Washington and a campaign of massive civil disobedience to demand jobs, housing and education. In order to achieve this, King called for a “new and unsettling force,” a multi-racial “nonviolent army of the poor, a freedom church of the poor.” In his last Sunday sermon, he preached:

We are coming to Washington in a poor people’s campaign. Yes, we are going to bring the tired, the poor, the huddled masses … We are coming to demand that the government address itself to the problem of poverty. We read one day: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But if a man doesn’t have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists … We are coming to ask America to be true to the huge promissory note that it signed years ago. And we are coming to engage in dramatic non-violent action, to call attention to the gulf between promise and fulfillment; to make the invisible visible.
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Stop being scared to speak against the EVILS they do to us. You give them reverence when they suppress us.

Please do not go to Sun Spa, located at 6804 Fruitridge Rd #A
Sacramento, CA, 95820, They will claim that they are too busy for you.