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Public-health officials urge Senate to restore tobacco prevention funding, vape retailer license and higher tobacco taxes
Summary
Public-health advocates told the Senate Health Committee the House cut prevention funding and removed critical regulatory tools, and they urged restoration of a vapor-retailer registry, higher tobacco taxes and $10 million per year for Ohio’s Tobacco Use Prevention Fund.
Local health officials, the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network and other public-health witnesses asked the Senate to restore higher funding and regulatory tools to curb youth tobacco and vaping use.
Leah Baylor of the Clark County Combined Health District described school confiscations of vaping devices and said a retailer licensing program reduced vendor sales-to-minors failures from 35% to 8%…
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