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Mixed testimony as committee hears bills on nicotine-free generation, online tobacco sales and flavored-product rules
Summary
The Joint Committee on Public Health heard hours of testimony on competing tobacco-policy proposals including a nicotine-free generation that phases out sales by birth year, a ban on Internet tobacco sales and attempts to weaken or preserve the state's flavored-tobacco rules.
The Joint Committee on Public Health heard hours of testimony on a package of tobacco and nicotine bills that included proposals to create a nicotine-free generation (House Bill 2,562 / S 15-68), ban Internet sales of tobacco (H 2,482), restore menthol sales (S 15-28) and preserve local tobacco authority (opposition to H 2,419).
Advocates for tighter restrictions and the nicotine-free generation emphasized youth prevention and described aggressive tobacco-industry marketing toward young people. Representative Linsky introduced student witness Tracey (Tricia) Chekulam and other speakers who argued online sales let teenagers bypass flavor bans and age checks: "Teenagers…
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