Minutes

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Vice President O’Brien

Thank you, that concludes our 15 minutes of public comment. | would like to say we got through it and for
those of you that did try to remain brief, we really appreciate it and I’m glad that you were heard. Those
that really gave it the good college try we do say thank you and again we are glad that you came before us
and to be heard.

COMMUNICATIONS REQUIRING FINAL APPROVAL

From: Mayor Jim Donchess
Re: Contract Award of Transit Service Operations

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case, more and more Nicotine must be taken to reproduce the same initial effects on the body and now on
the brain. That is why trying to break the cycle of tobacco, the use and addiction is extremely difficult. The
known physical ill effects and consequences of Nicotine use causes cancer, hypertension, stroke and etc to
name just a few that are taken over by the brain’s false thinking that it needs more and more regardless of
the continuing damage of the Nicotine upon the body itself.

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weeks ago | had the opportunity to participate in an Awareness is Healing Walk with over 300 people who
were there to remember loved ones that were lost due to overdose due to their addiction. There were
family, there were friends, their hearts were hurting, they were sad; but they were also happy to be there
together with their community to make a difference.

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| sent a brief e-mail to you all just yesterday so | don’t know if you had a chance to look at it, but from a site,
Tobacco Free Kids, the total of tobacco in New Hampshire the following information was put out.

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And | am going to tell you as a person who is 18 years of age or older, you can buy a shotgun, you can buy
a rifle, you become a pilot at the age of 16. So! don’t want to hear this idea that 18 year olds somehow
don’t have what they need up here in their minds to make the right decisions. They can make the right
decisions on their own especially if they have good parents leading them. That’s all | have to say, thank
you for your time.

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This change will do nothing if they want the product they can get it. Vape seems to be what | am hearing
from the crowd here and what | heard from the Committee in past hearings, the problem becomes vape.
We don’t sell vape, we don’t carry vape, we are stuck in with all other tobacco products and it is not fair.
Nashua needs to take a step down and stop the overreaching from this. Thank you.

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Apparently it looks like vape seems to be the problem but we become one of the unforeseen consequences
with this. Currently the legal age to purchase tobacco in the United States is 18 and New Hampshire and it
is 18. Today the City of Nashua is considering overstepping its boundaries as far as | am concerned in
trying to overstep the State and National Laws.

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products. You are also going to hear, and you’ve heard this argument about well you can go to Hudson,
you can go to Merrimack. You know, | understand that argument, be can also be the first, we are the
second largest City in the State and we can be the first of those two large cities to prohibit this and we can
be the first then to lead a movement to hopefully make this a State-Wide initiative. So | do hope that you
will consider supporting this legislation as it is written or as it might be amended. Thank you very much

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Joerel Nieves Hello everyone my name is Joerel Nieves, | am 18 | go Nashua South. | live at 9 Forge
Drive. | am going to leave all the big facts to them, they got all that. | am just here to say that this bill will
prevent our youth to you know make it harder for them to find ways to get it and that’s really all | had to say.
Enjoy the rest of the time.