“Ald. Matt O’Shea (19th), one of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s closest City Council allies, said he plans to introduce the ban at Wednesday’s City Council meeting with support from “the mayor’s leadership team.” Lightfoot said then she was unwilling to wait for President Donald Trump to follow through on his threat to propose a federal ban on flavored e-cigarettes. On Tuesday, Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) likened O’Shea’s proposal to ban only the sale of flavored tobacco products as “putting our toes in the lake without full jumping in.” “We need to fully ban e-cigarettes because menthol is a flavor. Natural is a flavor. There is such thing as a natural e-cigarette. Everything is flavored to be chemically stimulating,” Lopez said.”
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Mayoral ally proposes Chicago ban on flavored tobacco products
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