HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi on Friday will sign a measure into law aimed at banning the sale of flavored tobacco products in a bid to address vaping among youth.
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Bill 46 is known as a so-called “trigger law” because it will only go into effect if a state law that restricts the counties from regulating or restricting tobacco and nicotine products is overturned.
Public health experts have sounded the alarm about flavored tobacco products popular in vaping, noting the flavors clearly target youth smokers at a time when cigarette smoking is declining.
This year, Hawaii started taxing vaping products at the same rate as cigarettes.
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