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On New Year's Day, the city of Columbus, Ohio, did what the federal government has not been able to: ban the sale of menthol cigarettes. Three weeks later, the state Legislature voted to reinstate ...
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine speaking at a Jan. 5, 2023, press conference after he vetoed state legislation that would have blocked cities like Columbus from banning the sale of menthol cigarettes and ...
The Ohio House voted earlier this month to override Gov. Mike DeWine's veto of a state law passed a year ago and included in a state budget in July that would prohibit cities from banning flavored ...
Therefore, such policies are entirely a product of state and local laws. In 1995, California was the first state to enact a statewide smoking ban for restaurants. [1] Throughout the early to mid-2000s, especially between 2004 and 2007, an increasing number of states enacted a statewide smoking ban of some kind.
A ban on flavored tobacco, as mandated by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, was implemented by the CTP on September 22, 2009. This law bans the sale or distribution of any cigarettes containing an artificial or natural flavor other than tobacco. This ban does not apply to menthol.
The Food and Drug Administration had in April 2022 proposed to ban the sale of flavored cigars and menthol cigarettes after several health advocacy groups said they were highly addictive, and ...
Massachusetts, California and Washington, D.C., already prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes, and Oregon and Washington state are weighing similar bans. The main argument against a menthol ban ...
Efforts to ban menthol cigarettes have been ongoing for multiple administrations, but, in April 2021, the Biden administration's FDA announced plans to finalize the rule. The move was met with ...