“Community leaders gathered with hundreds of marchers to protest the discriminatory Senate Bill 793. The goal of SB793 is to ban the sale of flavored tobacco, prohibiting e-cigarettes and vaping; however, menthol cigarettes are also included in the band while excluding hookah. If the simple act of a consensual adult purchasing a menthol cigarette becomes a criminal act, then that makes the SB793 a direct hit towards African Americans.”
BILL TARLING — It likely wouldn’t take much to remove [exclude] the menthol tobacco products, and simply carrying on with the full anti-vaping bill flavor ban — although, with the FDA Sept PMTA deadline just ahead, it likely wouldn’t matter since almost all e-liquid vape flavors and companies will be wiped out of business [except for the Big Tobacco companies with their versions of the products, as well as a renewed market for selling their regular cigarettes
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Community Leaders Come Together Against Racism and Discrimination Protesting Senate Bill 793