A new California vaping bill is a ruse for protecting Big Tobacco, health groups say
A teenager uses a vaping device near her school in Cambridge, Mass. A California bill to stop teen use of electronic cigarettes was shelved earlier this year.
that found some 3.6 million middle and high school students are using e-cigarettes, an increase of 1.5 million from the year before.Gray’s Assembly Bill 1639 would allow sales in age-restricted vape and tobacco shops and through online merchants that use age-verification technology. “What Gray is offering in some ways is the Juul market-share protection act,” Jim Knox, managing director of the network, said in an interview.
Sims said that kids exposed to the industry’s marketing efforts shouldn’t be the ones held responsible for trying e-cigarettes. “It’s the people who are profiting from putting bad products in kids hands that should be held accountable,” she said. The Hill bill was changed to exempt hookah products and some flavors that are commonly used in cigars and pipes, including menthol.
“That’s wrong on several counts,” Hill said. “SB 39 is a standalone bill, introduced in December, to impose more stringent age verification, packaging and delivery requirements for tobacco products of all kinds sold online and by mail. It is not associated with any committee effort.”
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