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From: Bob Garcia <garciabobby1959@gmail.com> <br />Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 9:27 PM <br />To: CityClerkMbx <City Clerk@riversideca.gov> <br />Subject: [External] Smoke Free Housing <br />Hello! My name is Bob Garcia, and I am a Community Member in the Community of Casa Blanca. <br />I would like to share my input with you on why I support smoke free housing. As a child growing up, and into my adult <br />years my father was a chain smoker, as well as aunts and uncles. They all smoked inside our household for many years, <br />and I always questioned why we, my siblings and I, were always III from Colds, Coughs, Sore throats, and laryngitis, and <br />had to see our physicians throughout the years. As time went by, aunts, uncles and my father as well passed which had <br />to partly from smoking. When my father passed I contacted his physician with plenty of questions about what caused my <br />father's passing. The response from the physician was my father's continuous heavy smoking, was mainly to what <br />caused him to have strokes throughout the years. My father lived until the age of 69. As a Diabetic, smoking is bad for <br />Diabetics, as cigarettes have sugar in each cigarette. My mother and I continued with the illnesses until our home was <br />fumigated, which assisted in taking out the years of accumulation of the smoke odor throughout our household. As for <br />two of my Siblings, they had heart attacks which was partially from smoking as well. My mother lived up to the age of <br />88, even though she lived in our home with my father being a chain smoker, and lived an additional 22 years after my <br />father's passing from other internal illnesses. Myself, I do not smoke, and if I have visitors and/ or relatives who smoke <br />visiting, I kindly ask them to smoke outdoors, because it affects the lungs and internal organs. <br />Thank You for accepting my reasoning for a non smoking home or other forms of living arrangements for families in my <br />community and throughout. <br />Respectfully, <br />With Peace, Prayers, and Blessings, <br />Bob/Bobby Garcia <br />cc Mayor <br />City Council <br />City Manager <br />City Attorney <br />ACMs <br />1 <br />