California Voters Keep State Ban on Flavored Tobacco and Vapes
Bring on the black market.
Bring on the black market.
The "epidemic" of adolescent vaping seems to be fading fast, and vaping is replacing smoking among adults, a harm-reducing trend that regulators seem determined to discourage.
Bureaucrats say they want to save lives. But they're moving to block a tool that is proven to help smokers quit entirely.
What was once a classic Silicon Valley success story has become the victim of an intensely ideological war on nicotine.
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Regulators have long targeted tobacco products, but there's new energy behind outright bans on vapes and cigarettes.
Whatever else the BBB bill will do, this provision is bad for public health and could increase smoking's death toll.
The proposed vaping tax has caused a third Democrat to join Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema in opposing the bill.
Plus, how his tax hikes won't actually help anyone, either.
The plan would make a liar out of Biden on a level reminiscent of George H.W. Bush's betrayal of his "read my lips" tax pledge.
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