City Tobacco Ordinance

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Introduced by _____________________________

First Reading _______________________       Second Reading _________________________

Ordinance No. ______________________       Council Bill No. _________________________

AN ORDINANCE

Amending Chapter 11 of the City Code relating to third hand tobacco smoke exposure in assisted living, residential and health care facilities.

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS:

            Chapter 11 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Columbia, Missouri, is hereby amended as follows:

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ARTICLE IX. – CLEAN INDOOR AIR

Sec. 11-293. – Responsibility of proprietors.

            Definitions:

            As used in this division, the following terms mean:

            Smoke Free. No smoking and no ashtrays in designated areas.

            Tobacco Free. No smoking anywhere on the property and no ashtrays within the area, yielding no tobacco smoke exposure anywhere within the property.

            Second Hand Tobacco Smoke. Airborne tobacco smoke not consumed by the smoker (also called passive smoking and environmental tobacco smoke).

            Third Hand Tobacco Smoke. The tobacco smoke deposited on everything where smoking occurs, and is carried from place to place in the hair, clothes and bodies of anyone exposed to tobacco smoke. Third hand tobacco smoke can be released into the air for hours to days resulting in additional exposure after the smoker has stopped smoking.

            Nicotine Addicted. A person requiring nicotine to calm the craving for nicotine and, when quitting, nicotine needed to reduce withdrawal symptoms.

            Quitting. Reducing the number of cigarettes needed to relieve craving, learning an alternate way to handle stress, and unlearning smoking cult rituals.

            Smoker. Anyone burning tobacco as a toxic source of nicotine. Vaping without nicotine is an excellent example of pure ritual.

            Nicotine Replacement Therapy. The use of non-toxic nicotine sources to relieve withdrawal symptoms when quitting smoking; also replacing each cigarette with a lozenge, or several other alternate nicotine sources.

Smoking Cessation Program. A process of preparing a smoker to successfully quit by a variety of methods including determining the what, why, and how of a smoker’s behavior; a plan for behavior modification during quitting and after quitting; and the best time to quit. Mental preparedness is far more important when working with addiction than trying to buy a commercially available quitting potion.

     (e)             No one carrying third hand tobacco smoke shall work, in close proximity (9 feet), with a patient or resident in an assisted living, residential, or health care facility in Columbia, MO, including, but not limited to, long term assisted living memory care, assisted living, and memory care. This restriction is exempted by a release signed by a patient, resident, or responsible person acting for the patient or resident containing these two statements: "Tobacco smoke exposure is the number one cause of preventable illness and early death from heart attack, stroke, slow healing, and the aggravation of several illnesses. There is no risk-free level of tobacco smoke exposure."

Richard Hart, PhD  www.residentialcarefortwo.blogspot.com  rahart1@outlook.com