the ordinanceQuoteORDINANCE NO. 2006-217AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CALABASAS REGULATING SECOND-HAND SMOKE AND AMENDING THE CALABASAS MUNICIPAL CODETHE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CALABASAS DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:SECTION 1. FINDINGS.The City Council of Calabasas hereby finds and declares as follows:WHEREAS, scientific studies have concluded that cigarette smoking causes chronic lung disease, coronary heart disease, stroke, cancer of the lungs, larynx, esophagus, mouth, and bladder, and contributes to cancer of the cervix, pancreas, and kidneys;1 andWHEREAS, the use of cigars is known to cause lung, larynx, esophageal, and oral cancer;2 andWHEREAS, more than 440,000 people die in the United States from tobaccorelated diseases every year, making it the nations leading cause of preventable illness;3 andWHEREAS, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that by 2030, tobacco will account for 10 million deaths per year, making it the greatest cause of death worldwide;4 andWHEREAS, deaths from smoking around the world will soon outnumber those from AIDS, tuberculosis, traffic accidents, murder, and suicide combined;5 and1 U.S. Dept of Health and Human Servs., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Targeting Tobacco Use:The Nations Leading Cause of Death 2002, 2 (2002), available at
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/overview/oshaag.pdf(last accessed August 15, 2003).2 U.S. Dept of Health and Human Servs., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Annual Smoking- Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Economic Costs United States 1995-1999 (2002)MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT, available athttp://
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5114a2.htm (last accessed August 15, 2003).3 U.S. Dept of Health and Human Servs., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Highlights AnnualSmoking Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Economic Costs United States 1995-1999(2002) MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT, available at
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/research_dat ... lights.htm (last accessed August 15, 2003).4 U.S. Dept of Health and Human Servs., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Reducing Tobacco Use:A Report of the Surgeon General, 437 (2001).5 Macksood Aftab, et. al., International Cigarette Labeling Practices, 8:4 TOBACCO CONTROL 368 (1999).