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SANTA CLARA COUNTY CODE OF ORDINANCES: Sec. B13-79. Findings and intent.

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Sec. B13-79. Findings and intent.

The Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Clara does hereby find that studies have shown tobacco smoke is a major contributor to air pollution and is detrimental to nonsmokers' health, welfare and comfort, especially to elderly people, children, individuals with cardiovascular disease, impaired respiratory function, or allergies, and those who suffer ill effects of breathing secondhand smoke may experience a loss of job productivity or may be forced to take periodic sick leave because of reactions to secondhand smoke.

The intent of this chapter is (1) to protect the public health and welfare by prohibiting or limiting smoking in public places as hereinafter set forth and (2) to strike a reasonable balance between the need of persons who smoke and the need of nonsmokers to breathe smoke-free air, and to recognize that, where these needs conflict, the need to breathe smoke-free air should have priority.

(Ord. No. NS-625.4, § 2, 1-4-94)

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