Feinstein quietly comes out against JUUL-backed vaping ballot measure

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There was no fanfare, no press release, no fiery-denunciation.

But with a vote cast by a proxy at the San Francisco Democratic Party board’s regular meeting Wednesday night, a new major opponent of JUUL’s ballot initiative to repeal a ban of its products emerged.

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

Feinstein voted “no” on the Party’s proposal to endorse Proposition C, the JUUL-backed ballot measure. She wasn’t alone, as the measure only garnered three “yes” votes out of the roughly 32 voting members.

You could say JUUL just got smoked.

Proposition C, billed as a “responsible” response to skyrocketing vaping use among children and teenagers — which the Center for Disease Control and Prevention called an “epidemic” — would peel back a ban on vaping products in San Francisco passed by the Board of Supervisors in April. That ban, meant to protect kids, has a pretty smart built-in caveat: If the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reviews JUUL’s products for safety, they can be sold again in The City.

Feinstein joins Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her opposition to the JUUL-backed measure, lending some major names to the effort to knock out Big Tobacco — but even that may not help.

JUUL has already spent more than $4 million in its efforts to boost its ballot measure. All those swarms of folks hoisting pro-Prop. C signs on Market Street don’t come cheap.

The two groups opposing Prop. C have raised about $442,000 together, all told. That’s peanuts, frankly. David had more ammunition to toss at Goliath.

This is not our former mayor’s first whack at JUUL. In April, just as Supervisor Shamann Walton was passing San Francisco’s vape ban, Feinstein, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) introduced the bipartisan bill “Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act,” which would prevent online sales of vapes to minors by applying strict age verification measures to online sales.

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Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez – San Francisco Examiner – August 29, 2019.

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