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Help us prevent kids from using e-cigarette and tobacco products. Your report may help identify possible violations!
This includes reporting gas stations, convenient stores and smoke shops etc. who sell these products to minors, including counterfeit JUUL pods, sales of open packages (loose pods), free giveaways and sales in non-authorized venues.
The Denver Post: In his op-ed, PAVe advocate Kyle Wimmer states we need the Attorney General to work with state and local lawmakers to pass legislation that outlaws the sales of flavored vape/tobacco products and keep them out of the hands of kids before they get addicted.
ColoradoPolitics : A group of vape shop owners filed a petition for a referendum with the Denver Clerk and Recorder's Office.
CU School of Medicine: Nearly half a million middle school and high school students have reported using nicotine pouches this year. CU physician Gina Kruse explains why that’s concerning.
Denverite: The last attempt got vetoed, but Mayor Mike Johnston may be open to a ban on flavored vapes ad more.
KRDO: The City of Golden has announced they voted to end the sale of all flavored tobacco products in retail stores, effective January 1, 2024–that is according to the American Lung Association in Colorado.
INSIDER - One tobacco giant — Reynolds American — is actively spreading millions of dollars to hundreds of state-level political candidates and political action committees, according to an internal corporate governance document reviewed by Insider.
DP: On the heels of a defeat to ban flavored smoking and vaping products in Denver, state lawmakers are considering a flavor ban that could be enacted across Colorado.
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N-O-T: Not On Tobacco—Proven Teen Smoking and Vaping Cessation Program
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