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Vermont House debates S.18 to ban flavored tobacco products and e-liquids; committees present health and fiscal cases
Summary
Lawmakers spent the floor session debating S.18, a bill that would prohibit retail sales of flavored tobacco products and flavored e-liquids, with Human Services urging public-health protections and Ways and Means presenting fiscal impacts and amended definitions; the House recessed for committee consideration of a Ways and Means amendment.
The Vermont House heard a lengthy second-reading presentation on S.18 on the floor in Montpelier, a bill that would prohibit retail sales of flavored tobacco products, flavored e-liquids and menthol tobacco products and add e-liquids to multiple tobacco-related statutes.
Representative (Member) from Shelburne, speaking for the Human Services committee, framed the bill as a public-health response to increased youth use of flavored e-cigarettes and menthol products, citing CDC and state survey figures and linking flavors to youth initiation. "S.18, as we just heard, is a bill that bans all flavored tobacco products and e liquids," the member said, and described committee findings that flavored products have proliferated the market and are attracting young users.
The Human Services presentation summarized broad testimony from clinicians, school nurses, public-health officials and students.…
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