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San Bruno City Council Meeting June 14, 2011
9. Public Comment
A
Now
we'll
move
on
to
item
9
public
comment
and
items
not
on
the
agenda.
It
is
the
council's
policy
to
refer
matters
raised
in
this
forum
to
staff
for
investigation
interaction
where
appropriate.
The
Brown
Act
prohibits
the
council
from
discussing
or
acting
upon
any
matter,
not
agendize
pursuant
to
state
law.
But
anyone
like
to
address
the
council
under
public
comment.
B
C
Today,
we're
going
to
tell
you
about
one
of
our
campaigns:
smoke-free
hollywood.
First
I'll
tell
you
about
how
the
tobacco
industry
uses
movies
to
target
children
and
teens.
Then
we're
going
to
tell
you
about
our
campaign
and
the
data
we
recently
collected
and
give
you
an
opportunity
to
take
action.
D
Tobacco
companies
replace
the
400,000
smokers
who
died
HD
each
year
by
recruiting
new
young
smokers.
Hollywood
movies
account
for
about
half
of
those
new
smokers,
because
tobacco
companies
have
an
80
year
old
history
of
using
movies
to
promote
smoking.
The
more
smoking
that
children
and
teens
watch
on
the
screen,
the
more
likely
they
are
to
start
smoking
as
teenagers.
B
We
are
asking
a
motion
picture
association
of
america
to
change
the
policy
so
that
one
GP
GM
pg-13
movies,
be
tobacco.
Free
to
movie.
Producers
would
be
to
be
required
to
certify
that
they
did
not
accept
money
from
the
tobacco
industry
for
putting
tobacco
in
their
movies.
Three
strong
anti-smoking
ad
should
be
shown
before
movies
with
smoking
and,
finally
that
there
should
be
no
tobacco
brand
or
logo
identification
in
movies.
D
These
four
policy
solutions
have
been
endorsed
by
the
world
health
organization,
the
American
Medical
Association,
the
American
Academy
of
Pediatrics
and
many
others,
including
local
elected
officials
such
as
rebel
City,
Council
Pacific,
City,
Council,
Daly,
City,
Council,
San,
Mateo,
City,
Council,
Belmont,
City
Council
and
San
Mateo
County
Board
of
Supervisors.
This
year
we
forced
our
campaign
efforts
in
san
bruno
in
burlingame,
and
we
recently
conducted
research
in
these
two
cities
by
recollecting
through
230
public
opinion
surveys.
We
ask
people
their
opinions
on
these
four
policy
solutions.
Here's
what
we
found.
B
When
we
asked
people
whether
they
would
support
making
gpg
and
pg-13
movie
Sibeko,
three
tobacco-free
on
83.9
percent
said
yes.
In
addition,
69.6
percent
said
that
they
would
support
requiring
movie
producers
to
certify
that
they
did
not
accept
money
from
the
tobacco
industry
for
putting
tobacco
in
their
movies.