Category: legislation
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France follows Belgium’s lead to ban disposable e-cigarettes
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250213-french-parliament-votes-to-ban-disposable-e-cigarettes “The bill was approved by the French parliament with a final vote in the Senate upper house. France now becomes the second EU country after Belgium to have introduced such a ban.” A movement has started
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Belgium leads the way in banning disposable e-cigarettes in 2024
“From Jan. 1, it will be forbidden to sell single-use vapes in Belgium, a bid to protect young people’s health as part of a national anti-tobacco plan. The European Union aims to achieve a tobacco-free generation by 2040, reducing the 27-country bloc’s smoking population from around 25% now to less than 5% of the total.”…
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California Legislator Jacqui Irwin introduces AB 762 to ban single-use disposable vaping products
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article300590274.html Following the lead of other nations and states in America. “Irwin’s bill would ban the sale of all single-use vapes in the state, and provides cities, counties and the state with the legal teeth to enforce that ban with fines starting at $500 per violation.”
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A youth-led movement to end flavored tobacco sales in Hawaii
Op-Ed: Youth advocates call on state legislators to end the sale of flavored tobacco in Hawaiʻi or restore counties’ authority over tobacco regulationsBy Maui members of the Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaiʻi Youth Council On average 1,400 Hawaiʻi residents die every year from a tobacco-related illness. Ninety-five percent of smokers start before the age of…
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An update about smoke free generation and a surgeon transitions into government
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/surgeon-turned-mp-takes-on-vape-and-tobacco-companies-after-a-decade-treating-victims/ar-AA1ysEJH “I have spent the last three weeks in the Tobacco and Vapes Bill committee scrutinising legislation that will see every child born after 1 st January 2009 never being allowed to smoke and will further control the sale of vapes, particularly those targeted at children.
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Update about the Low Tar Myth legal case in Europe
https://www.tabaknee.nl/news/item/3170-european-court-to-hear-rigged-cigarette-case-on-march-10th “On 10 March, the European Court of Justice will hear the questions posed in the context of the appeal in the enforcement case concerning the rigged cigarettes, initiated by Youth Smoking Prevention Foundation.” This case has been years in the making, and it will likely take months for a ruling to be issued. It…
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The Trump FDA withdraws the proposed menthol cigarette ban
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has withdrawn a rule that would have banned menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, putting a formal end to a policy that had been indefinitely delayed under the Biden administration.
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The Public Health Law Center comments on the FDA announcements regarding reduced nicotine cigarettes and oral nicotine pouches
https://www.publichealthlawcenter.org/commentary/250121/1/21/25-fdas-new-announcements-nicotine-reduction-zyn-products The likely result of the FDA’s release of the rule before the Trump administration begins is to protect the rule from being discarded and to allow the agency to begin collecting comments from the public but not pursue any action on the rule. The agency appears to anticipate this by having an extended comment…
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The United State Supreme Court hears a case related to vaping litigation against the FDA
E-cigarette manufacturer R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. sought to challenge a marketing authorization denial for its new vape flavors in the Fifth Circuit. The North Carolina-based company would normally file before the Fourth Circuit or the D.C. Circuit, but Reynolds tied itself to a local retailer to put its lawsuit in front of a friendlier audience.
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