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Public-health groups push Senate to restore tobacco-prevention funding and vapor-retailer licensing in HB 96
Summary
Public-health witnesses asked the Senate to restore governor-proposed funding for the Tobacco Use Prevention Fund, reinsert a vapor-retailer licensing program and adopt a cigarette tax increase the House removed, arguing those steps would reduce youth tobacco and vaping use and generate revenue.
Leah Baylor, a health educator with Clark County Combined Health District, told the Senate Health Committee that local enforcement and education depend on state investments in the Tobacco Use Prevention Fund and a vapor-retailer licensing program. Baylor said local compliance checks in Clark County found a 35 percent failure rate before tobacco-retailer licensing and an 8 percent failure rate after licensing and fines were enacted locally. She asked the committee to support the executive…
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