The ordinance bans flavored menthol cigarettes, chewing tobacco, and vaping merchandise bought in all institutions in Denver.
DENVER — The Denver Metropolis Council has handed a ban on the sale of sure flavored tobacco merchandise within the metropolis beginning in 2023.
The proposal handed in an 8 to three vote Monday evening. It bans flavored menthol cigarettes, chewing tobacco, and vaping merchandise bought in all institutions in Denver. It goes into impact July 1, 2023.
The ban doesn’t embrace hookah, pure cigars, pipe tobacco, and hurt discount instruments.
The ordinance defines a flavored tobacco product as any tobacco product, or a part of a tobacco product, that imparts a style or odor aside from the style or odor of tobacco.
Mayor Michael Hancock’s workplace stated the mayor will take the subsequent few days to overview the laws and perceive its potential impacts, then resolve whether or not to signal it or not.
Denver is the state’s largest metropolis to go such a ban. Edgewater, Aspen, Carbondale, and Glenwood Springs have handed their very own bans.
Boulder banned flavored e-cigarettes in 2019. In 2020, that metropolis’s voters permitted a 40% tax on all vaping merchandise.
Boulder County Public Well being does not know if the ban and the gross sales tax have decreased teen vaping charges. The final numbers they’ve are from 2019. These confirmed greater than 1 / 4 of highschool college students in Boulder County vaped and almost half had tried it.
Boulder County will likely be getting information on the teenager vaping charge quickly from the Wholesome Children Colorado Survey that was carried out this fall. However the survey is damaged down by county and is not city-specific.
The Boulder County well being division stated they do have information that reveals flavors are the rationale many younger folks begin utilizing vaping merchandise.
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