An ordinance which was voted on by the San Diego City Council will ban flavoured vapes, cigarillos and menthol cigarettes in 2023.
The SAAFE Act was introduced by Councilmember Marni von Wilpert, and bans flavoured vaping and tobacco products with the exception of premium flavoured cigars, flavoured loose-leaf tobacco, and hookah.
Meanwhile the Neighborhood Market Association, have cited data from San Francisco, indicating that banning flavoured vapes just encourages former smokers who had switched to vaping, to revert to smoking. And while this study was discredited by Jonathan Winickoff, director of pediatric research at Massachusetts General Hospital’s distinguished Tobacco Research & Treatment Center, yet another study reported similar findings.
Diane Caruana – VapingPost – 2022-05-04.
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