“Just because a policy has already been documented to be a proven failure doesn’t mean politicians will cease proposing it. Maryland, Washington, Connecticut and a handful of other states are considering bills to ban flavored tobacco and vaping products, even though this same prohibition has backfired elsewhere. Early results from the flavored tobacco & vaping products prohibition enacted in Massachusetts show such bans deprive adults of less harmful alternatives to cigarettes, crush small businesses, depress tax collections as commerce shifts across state lines, and fail to curb smoking. If Maryland lawmakers and legislators elsewhere learn lessons from Massachusetts and heed the advice of non-partisan public finance experts, they’ll reject the pending prohibitions.”
ARTICLE LINK: One State’s Flavored Tobacco & Vape Ban Is A Cautionary Tale For The Nation
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