Senate Bill 367 which was presented by the Connecticut Public Health Committee earlier this year, did not gain enough support.
Just like other Northeast States’ bills, namely the ones in Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island, Senate Bill 367 assumed that a flavour ban would reduce teen vaping rates. This despite the constant incoming data indicating that actually flavour bans do not work.
Recent figures from San Francisco, which was the first US city to ban flavours, has in line with expert predictions indicated that the measure has just led to teens reverting from vaping to smoking. Besides facing significant opposition from the tobacco industry and retailers leading up to the final days of the 2019-20 Legislative Session, SF’s flavour ban had also been met with concern by public health experts who predicted that it would drive teens back to smoking regular cigarettes.
Diane Caruana – VapingPost – 2022-05-11.
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