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“Flavored tobacco and youth vaping will be appearing on Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors agenda with a request for direction from staff members. The timed item, scheduled for 9:20 a.m. Tuesday, will feature a presentation regarding flavored vaping products and the health risks associated with using them. The department will be asking the supervisors to accept the report for information. No vote is expected to be held nor will there be direction. The Butte County Board of Supervisors generally meets every second and fourth Tuesday of the month. Meetings are held at 25 County Center Drive in Oroville and are open to the public.”

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Supervisors asked to decide on vaping, listen to groundwater report

“The bill, which associate health minister Jenny Salesa is calling “the most significant change to New Zealand’s smokefree laws since they were introduced 30 years ago”, will introduce a complete ban on the sale of vaping and smokeless tobacco products to anyone under the age of 18. The advertising of vaping products and smokeless tobacco is also banned, while e-liquid flavours will be limited to tobacco, mint and menthol in non-speciality stores like dairies and service stations. Last year the government suggested it would prohibit other flavours altogether. But this new bill will allow other flavours to be sold at “approved specialist vape retailers”.”

ARTICLE LINK:

Cheat sheet: what’s the deal with the new vaping law?

NZ VAPING BILL:

Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Bill

“Sales of vaping products to under-18s will be banned, flavours restricted and vapers barred from lighting up in smoke-free areas under a law change set to be introduced to Parliament on Monday. Vaping laws will be bought closer to tobacco laws under the proposed law change, including a prohibition on advertising and sponsorship of vaping products and e-cigarettes. But the Government has ruled out a complete ban because it sees vaping as one way to help smokers quit more harmful cigarettes.”

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Vaping crackdown: new law will ban under-18s and advertising

“As the bill is currently written, no vaping products will be able to be sold to people under the age of 18, nor are the products able to be advertised or used in sponsorship. Vaping will also be banned from smokefree areas, so people would only be able to vape where cigarettes are allowed to be smoked. Salesa said the bill will also limit general stores – including dairies and service stations – to selling only three flavours: tobacco, mint and menthol. All other flavours will only be able to be sold at licensed vape stores.”

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Bill to restrict vaping and e-cigarette sales and use in public

“A Bill is being introduced to Parliament on Monday which includes a total ban on all advertising of smokeless products and no sales to under-18s. It will also ban using e-cigarettes and smokeless tobacco in smokefree areas, restrict who can sell them, limit some retailers to only three flavours and give the Ministry of Health powers to recall, suspend and issue warnings about vaping products.”

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Government proposes new vaping regulations

“On Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a package of initiatives he supports to combat youth tobacco use, including a ban, contained in his proposed executive budget, on the sale of all flavored vaping products in the state, including menthol flavors. The goal is put the laws on the books after efforts to enact bans via executive order have been rejected by the courts in recent months.”

BILL TARLING – Cuomo wants e-liquid products banned, but has encouraged marijuana availability. Even his anti-vaping petition is strictly one-sided (you can only vote in favor of the ban). New York generates over a Billion Dollars a year in tobacco tax revenue as long as New Yorkers keep smoking. A ban on e-liquid vape products will help protect his State’s smokers revenue stream.

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NY wants to ban flavored e-cigarette products

“New research suggests that last summer’s spate of severe lung illnesses tied to vaping prompted many Americans to consider giving up e-cigarettes. Online searches about how to quit vaping spiked after serious lung injuries among vapers started being reported, the study authors found. Before these lung illness cases were connected primarily with vaping of marijuana and additives, many people who used nicotine-containing e-cigarettes were concerned, the researchers noted.”

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Lung illnesses may have pushed some in U.S. to quit vaping

“Arizona’s attorney general has obtained an injunction against a New Jersey-based vaping company he recently sued that bars the company from marketing or selling any of its products in the state. The injunction against Eonsmoke was announced by Attorney General Mark Brnovich on Thursday. The preliminary injunction issued by a judge in Phoenix bars Eonsmoke from marketing or selling its products in Arizona. It also requires the company to contact retailers, tell them to stop selling any of the company’s products and orders Eonsmoke to remove all its vaping cartridges up for sale in the state.”

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Court blocks NJ company from selling vaping products in Arizona

“The injunction also prohibits the marketing of any of the products listed as “illegal” by the FDA and it orders Eonsmoke to inform Arizona retailers and online retailers that these products must be removed from the Arizona market immediately, according to the AG’s press release.”

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Injunction halts sale of Eonsmoke vape products in Arizona

“The Canadian Constitution Foundation has released an executive statement from a report looking at possible avenues for a constitutional challenge to current and proposed vaping legislation in Canada by Dr Leonid Sirota, professor of law at the Auckland University of Technology Law School. The Foundation says that the “conflation of vaping and smoking within the law runs contrary to the best available evidence and risks conveying to smokers the impression that vaping is not meaningfully different and better than smoking, discouraging them from trying what may be the best harm-reduction method available.” It states the report analyses various constitutional concerns about the regulation of vaping, both in terms of the laws falling outside of federal jurisdiction as well as running afoul of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”

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The Canadian Constitution Foundation

Here’s the latest from Brent Stafford at Regulator Watch:

Most vapers know it to be true because they saw it: public health propaganda—intended to combat the so-called ‘epidemic’ of teen vaping—actually fuelled youth interest instead. There’s a clear and obvious connection, and now we have the proof!
In a bombshell new report by Michelle Minton, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute titled “Perverse Psychology: How Anti-Vaping Campaigners Created the Youth Vaping Epidemic,” Minton argues it was not the vaping industry that “reignited youth interest in vaping—it was anti-vaping advocacy.”

Anti-vaping advertising campaigns made vaping look attractive and the “don’t vape” message triggered curiosity and rebellion.

In this special edition of RegWatch get an exclusive ‘first look’ at Minton’s new report and hear Michelle describe her findings in detail—it’s going to be a good one!

Only on RegWatch, by RegulatorWatch.com.

Live Streamed: February 19, 2020
Produced by: Brent Stafford

This episode is supported by: DEMAND VAPE

“The Town of Quispamsis is preparing to ban smoking on municipal property. Starting April 1, all smoking and vaping will be banned from any grounds owned by the town. That means no smoking on roads or sidewalks, or outside town-owned facilities. There are no plans for designated smoking areas in Quispamsis. Violators could be given a $125 ticket by Bylaw enforcement officers or the Kennebecasis Regional Police Force.”

VAPING NEWS:

Quispamsis to ban smoking on municipal property

“Governor Andrew Cuomo is once again pressing for a ban on flavored tobacco-based vaping products, saying he hopes a law is passed in the next month. Cuomo and his health commissioner, Dr. Howard Zucker, tried to ban the products in New York last fall, but the emergency order by a state panel was stopped in court, after the vaping industry sued. Now Cuomo has proposed a ban, along with comprehensive regulations, in his budget plan. The measure would end the sale of all flavored electronic cigarettes, including menthol, and discontinue all advertisements, including social media ads that Cuomo says are targeted toward teens. The bill also bans the sale of vaping products at stores that include pharmacies, as well as online sales.”

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Cuomo Once Again Presses For Flavored Vaping Ban