See the progress the Coalition has made on its Global Tobacco Control Policy Framework.

The San Francisco Tobacco Free Coalition is a grassroots coalition of health, environmental and youth-serving organizations and individuals concerned with tobacco control.  The Coalition has focused on protecting non-smokers from environmental tobacco smoke, reducing youth access to tobacco products, fighting tobacco industry marketing and advertising, and educating the community on international issues in tobacco control policies.  It’s public policy accomplishments included the following:

	Ordinance prohibiting smoking in all workplaces, including restaurants (1993)
	Ordinance prohibiting self-service displays of tobacco products (1996)
	Ordinance prohibiting cigarette vending machines (1996)
	Ordinance severely limiting outdoor tobacco advertising (1998)
	Policy divesting the San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System of tobacco stocks (1998)
	Policy prohibiting smoking in the playground areas of city parks by the Park and Recreation Commission (1998)
	Ordinance prohibiting tobacco advertising on taxicabs (1999)
	Allocation of $1 million per year of Master Settlement Funds for tobacco control and prevention (1999)
	Ordinance requiring tobacco retailers to obtain a tobacco permit from the City and County as a mechanism to identify all tobacco retailers in San Francisco and to strengthen enforcement of existing tobacco control laws such on the ban on tobacco sales to minors (2003)
	Ordinance banning smoking in unenclosed recreation areas under the jurisdiction of City and County Departments, including parks, squares and gardens.  The Coalition also successfully advocated for self enforcement through the presence of signage (2005)
	Ordinance banning smoking at public transit stops (2006)
	Ordinance banning smoking at public golf courses (2006)

Sponsored Board of Supervisors resolutions on issues such as:

• Opposition to Proposition 188 (tobacco industry sponsored proposition that would have overturned the State smoke free worksite law

• Support of FDA jurisdiction over tobacco products,

• Encouraging the City and County of San Francisco and the State of California to file suit against the tobacco industry, and

• Holding the tobacco industry to the same regulatory standards abroad as they are in the U.S.

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For more information contact the San Francisco Tobacco Free Project,
30 Van Ness Avenue, #2300, SF, CA, 94102.
Telephone: 415-582-2448 Fax: 415-581-2492
Email: Mele Lau

Email: Susana Hennessey Lavery