“Utah legislators this session are pushing to add a state tax to e-cigarettes, limit the sale of flavored products to specialty tobacco stores and raise the state’s legal tobacco age. An outright flavor ban — as some vape shop owners have feared and some health advocates have pleaded for — has not been proposed in legislation. According to proposed bill SB0037, vaping and e-cigarette products would be considered the same as tobacco products and subject to the same rules. “It establishes, hopefully, one of the best preventive measures, and that is it puts a significant tax on vaping e-cigarettes and vaping products, which will be the same tax which is on other tobacco products,” said Christensen, the bill’s sponsor. That tax would be 86% of the manufacturer’s sale price, Christensen explained, as it is for tobacco products. The bill would also restrict online sale of vaping products and carry a large fine for the seller.”
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