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Public‑health Groups Push Senate to Restore Tobacco‑Prevention Funding, Vape Retailer Registry
Summary
Local health officials and public‑health organizations urged the Senate to restore the governor’s proposed increase to the Tobacco Use Prevention Fund, reinsert a vapor retailer licensing/registry and consider a cigarette tax increase to curb youth tobacco use.
Leah Baylor, a health educator at Clark County Combined Health District, told the committee that school confiscations and compliance checks show high youth access to vapor products. She described a six-to-eight month school confiscation of “approximately about 30 pounds of confiscated vape products” and said local checks initially found a 35% failure rate for underage sales that fell to 8% after retailer licensing and fines.
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