Tobacco harm reduction news for February 21, 2019. Urgent Call to Action in New Mexico. Anti-harm reduction laws in Idaho, Utah, Illinois and Connecticut.
NEW MEXICO: (URGENT CALL TO ACTION!) Three bills that would restrict access to and awareness of low-risk alternatives to #smoking are scheduled for a HEARING TOMORROW! #vaping #smokefree
NM – URGENT Call to Action! – CASAA
OPINION: (Marina Jaimes) “tax and tight regulation…would leave a community of people without healthy alternatives….There is no compassion in the truth of these realities, and they are contradictory to the reasons cited by advocates to the legislation.”
Jaimes: Proposed cigarette tax is an unsustainable solution
ROLLING MEADOWS, ILLINOIS: (UPDATE) City denies early ADULT #smokers & #vapers access to the much safer alternative #vaping & #smokefree products that could actually eliminate #smoking.
Rolling Meadows Raises Age To Buy Tobacco Products To 21 | Journal & Topics Media Group
SOUTHINGTON, CONNECTICUT: (HEADS UP!) Town council to vote on denying early ADULT #smokers & #vapers access to the much safer alternative #vaping & #smokefree products that could actually eliminate #smoking.
Southington panel recommends raising age for tobacco purchase to 21
MOUNT PROSPECT, ILLINOIS: (UPDATE) City denies early ADULT #smokers & #vapers access to the much safer alternative #vaping & #smokefree products that could actually eliminate #smoking. At least council wisely didn’t include “possession” as an offense.
Age Set At 21 To Purchase Tobacco In Mount Prospect | Journal & Topics Media Group
CEDAR HILLS, UTAH: (UPDATE) City denies early ADULT #smokers & #vapers access to the much safer alternative #vaping & #smokefree products that could actually eliminate #smoking. At least council wisely didn’t include “possession” as an offense.
https://bit.ly/2GCcr2J
BOISE, IDAHO: (HEADS UP!) Without any evidence of risk to bystanders or the necessity of N intervention, city could reverse exemption and prohibit businesses from allowing #vaping in their own establishments.
Proposed Expansion of Boise’s Smokefree Air Act Would Ban Vaping, E-Cigarettes Where Smoking Is Prohibited
This article was originally published at CASAA
Author: KNoll-Marsh