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Dozens urge Clay County to keep flavored-tobacco ban at public hearing
Summary
Students, educators, public-health officials and community leaders urged the Clay County Board of Commissioners to keep the county's ordinance that restricts flavored tobacco and vaping products. Commissioners closed the hearing and said they will revisit the ordinance in April.
Dozens of students, school staff, public-health workers and community leaders urged the Clay County Board of Commissioners on March 18 to keep in place the county's ordinance restricting flavored tobacco products, telling commissioners that flavored products are driving youth nicotine use and addiction.
Speakers including school principals, counselors and students described frequent on-campus vaping, easy access to flavored products and a rise in use among middle-school students. Shannon Hunstead, superintendent of Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton Public Schools, told the board the district has documented dozens of vaping incidents this year and that administrators are spending instructional time addressing the issue.
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