Tobacco harm reduction news for January 28, 2019. Anti-harm reduction laws in Illinois, California, Iowa, New Mexico, New Hapshire, Minnesota and Oklahoma.
IOWA: (HEADS UP!) Lawmakers appear to be helping #tobacco sales by denying adult #smokers and #vapers 18-20 access to much safer alternative #vaping products, while allowing sale and possession of combustible #cigarettes.
Proposal would lift legal age to purchase e-cigarettes from 18 to 21
DOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: (HEADS UP!) Lawmakers hearing argument to deny adult #smokers and #vapers 18-20 access to much safer alternative #vaping products.
Dover Y2Y again asking Legislature to raise tobacco age to 21
NEW MEXICO: (HEADS UP!) HB 261 would tax #vaping products with a 76% excise tax, increasing the cost to remove an important incentive for #smokers to make the switch from #smoking to far safer #vapor products.
https://bit.ly/2DEt8YP
MINNESOTA: (HEADS UP!) Proposed bills would deny adult #smokers and #vapers 18-20 access to much safer alternative #vapor products and prohibit businesses from allowing #vaping in their own establishment.
Local lawmakers working on Tobacco 21, Helmet to Hardhat legislation
SAN CARLOS, CALIFORNIA: (HEADS UP!) City Council wants to ban flavored #vaping products although it’s already illegal to sell to anyone under 21. Would deny adult #vapers access to products that are most successful in helping them quit #smoking.
City looks to ban flavored tobacco, menthol cigs, smoking in apartments – Palo Alto Daily Post
ILLINOIS: (HEADS UP!) Lawmakers again trying to deny adult #smokers and #vapers 18-20 access to much safer alternative #vaping products.
Advocates again try to raise state’s tobacco-buying age to 21
DULUTH, MINNESOTA: (UPDATE) CIty Council voting TONIGHT tp deny adult #smokers and #vapers 18-20 access to much safer alternative #vaping products.
Duluth City Council to vote on Tobacco 21
OKLAHOMA: (HEADS UP!) Bill HB 1432 would deny adult #smokers and #vapers 18-20 access to much safer alternative #vaping products.
https://bit.ly/2Tl50zB
This article was originally published at CASAA
Author: KNoll-Marsh