February 4, 2020
NBC Bay Area, Staff, February 4, 2020- Another Bay Area city is pushing a ban on e-cigarettes and vaping products in an effort to curb teen use. Cupertino city leaders will hear public comments on the proposal at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting. In November, the city outlawed the sale …
February 3, 2020
New Mexico Daily Lobo, Lissa Knudsen, February 3, 2020- New Mexico is one step closer to establishing a licensure process for e-cigarette and other tobacco product retailers and raising the age of purchase of all tobacco products to twenty-one. Senate Bill 131, the Tobacco Products Act, sponsored by Sen. Linda Lopez …
September 27, 2019
The Journal News, David Robinson, September 26, 2019- New York’s emergency ban on flavored e-cigarettes has thrust it to the forefront of a politically charged battle over the fate of vaping in America. Amid the fight, tobacco and vaping companies have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars this year on …
December 2, 2018
The Preemption Watch Preemption Map tracks state preemption of eight major public health and safety issues. Click on any one of the eight issues to see which states preempt local control. Click on your state to see whether local authority has been preserved or preempted across the eight issues. Discrimination: …
October 15, 2018
Barea Online, Staff, October 10, 2018- Cities and counties in Kentucky cannot pass ordinances that raise the legal age to purchase tobacco products or ban tobacco flavors that appeal to youth, among other measures, even when local citizens and elected officials strongly support them. That’s because Kentucky law preempts local …