South Boston Community Health Center – Youth Ambassador Program
409 West Broadway
South Boston, MA 02127

Dear Boston Board of Health Members:

My name is Taylor Kimball and I am a part of the South Boston Youth Ambassadors program at the South Boston Community Health Center, a program in which sixty teens and caring adults combine to increase the function and health of the South Boston community. I have come in support of your proposed regulations to prohibit the sale of single cigars and cigarellos. I am also in support of the amendment to prohibit the use the e-cigarettes in the work place.

My entire life the smell of Marlboro cigarettes has filled my home. Both of my parents were smokers, my mother sadly still is. As a result of growing up in a smoke filled home, at the age of eleven I was diagnosed with asthma and through the years it has been an up and down experience.

The thing I am most concerned with is the dangers you can’t see or smell. Nicotine. The e-cigarette may not smell, and you may not smell any smoke, but there lies the real danger. The e-cigarette has never been deemed safe and the thought of not having a regulation on the distribution of nicotine is ludicrous in my mind.

In my house, I have always been told that you have to be eighteen to buy cigarettes, cigars and any product that delivers nicotine. I believe that selling e-cigarettes to minors should be illegal and I sincerely hope the new regulations will pass.

Sincerely,

Taylor Kimball age 16
South Boston Community Health Center
Youth Ambassador and South Boston resident