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Localities may regulate vaping more stringently than the state. Localities with vaping bans that include all bars and restaurants (38 total): Austin, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including bars and restaurants; use of vaporized medical marijuana permitted wherever not prohibited by State law [3]
The United States Congress has not attempted to enact any type of nationwide federal smoking ban in workplaces and public places. 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]
[30] [31] In the US some states tax e-cigarettes as tobacco products, and some state and regional governments have broadened their indoor smoking bans to include e-cigarettes. [32] As of April 2017, 12 US states and 615 localities had prohibited the use of e-cigarettes in venues in which traditional cigarette smoking was prohibited. [33]
Sen. Carri Hicks, D-Oklahoma City, has an interim study on youth vaping and policy solutions. The outcome could be a bill that would raise the age to purchase the product to 21 years old and more ...
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Critics of vaping bans state that vaping is a much safer alternative to smoking tobacco products and that vaping bans incentivize people to return to smoking cigarettes. [331] For example, critics cite the British Journal of Family Medicine in August 2015 which stated, "E-cigarettes are 95% safer than traditional smoking."
Between 2012 and 2015, local municipalities across the U.S. began raising their smoking ages to twenty-one, with Hawaii becoming the first state to raise its age to twenty-one in 2015. [12] This began the shift in states eventually raising their ages to twenty-one due to the teenage vaping epidemic. [13]
The tax-free weekend starts at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, Aug.2, and concludes at 11:59 p.m. Sunday night. The state sales tax, which is set at 4.5%, will be entirely waived during this time.