“A bill advancing at the State House would ban South Carolina cities and counties from enacting their own local restrictions on e-cigarette and vape sales. S.414 would make it illegal for local governments to enforce local rules on cigarette, e-cigarette, vape, and other tobacco and nicotine product sales, including banning products with certain flavors or ingredients from being sold within a city or county. The legislation now awaits a debate on the Senate floor after the Medical Affairs Committee voted to advance it last week. “I think we need to provide some consistency to the folks that are selling it, or if these products are bad, then they need to be banned statewide,” Sen. Shane Martin, R – Spartanburg, said. Local laws and ordinances put in place before 2021 would be grandfathered in under this bill. It also would not prevent cities and counties from enacting no-smoking areas or zoning ordinances to ban smoke or vape sales in certain places, like close to schools. “[If] It’s a legal product and they ban the sale of it in their locality, I worry that we give children an incentive, ‘Well, man, this must be the stuff to have because they banned it,’” Martin said. “
ARTICLE LINK: Bill would block local laws on e-cigarettes, vapes from being enforced in S.C.
PERSONAL NOTE (from Bill Tarling) – “Well, man, this must be the stuff to have because they banned it,’” Martin said” — Exactly! That’s also why the Juul became so popular with the kids when the ANTZ decided to start promoting it as the thing that was too dangerous for kids to even try [which is why the kids were drawn to it; to prove they were tough enough to use anything the adults said they couldn’t do]
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