On Dec. 21, 2022, California enacted Senate Bill 793, which prohibited the sale of most flavored tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, to people of all ages. Hookahs, premium cigars and loose-leaf tobacco were exempted from the legislation. The ban was motivated, in large part, by a ...
While smoking tobacco cigarettes has fallen among teens and young adults, the use of e-cigarettes and vapes has risen. A handful of states — California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island — have bans on most flavored tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and vapes. An...
In 2020, California passed a flavored tobacco sales restriction (FTSR), but the tobacco companies filed a referendum, and the ban will not be implemented unless approved by voters in November 2022. This study examined the percentage of the California population covered by a...
This narrative comes out of Flavors Hook Kids’ parent organization, Tobacco Free California, an advocacy group run by theCA Department of Health, funded by $0.25 tax on packs of cigarettes sold in the state. They claim that “For too long, Big Tobacco has been strategically killing the Black...
California raised the minimum age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21 in 2016. The federal government followed suit in 2019. GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE Last year, California’s tobacco taxes raised about $2 billion, according to FOX 11....
R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco companies filed a request Tuesday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to impose an emergency order to stop California from enforcing a ban on flavored tobacco products.
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Flavored Tobacco Product Use Among California Adolescents Before and Immediately After a Statewide Flavor Ban INTRODUCTION. In December 2022, a California law banned the retail sale of most flavored tobacco products (including e-cigarettes). This investigation evaluates adolescents' use of flavored tobacco...
On February 6, the Trump administration’s partial ban on selling flavored vape products went into effect. Pod-based vape companies, like JUUL, are now banned from selling any flavored pods, aside from menthol and tobacco. The fall of JUUL coincides with the rise of something else: the ...
In addition, flavored tobacco products are known tomake it difficult to quit nicotine. Research shows that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's 2009 ban on flavored cigarettesreduced adolescent tobacco use. That's why California has spearheaded progressive tobacco control policies—not only with...