Source: Shawn Zeller, ROLL CALL, 3/17/20


The House voted on Feb. 28 to ban the sale of flavored vaping products and to ban menthol-flavored cigarettes, the only legal flavoring still on the market for traditional cigarettes. Public health advocates believe a ban on all flavorings will combat the epidemic in electronic-cigarette vaping by teenagers, the health consequences of which are as yet unknown, and further reduce cancer deaths from cigarettes. Menthol-flavored cigarettes remain popular with smokers, particularly African Americans.

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