I personally am against the flavor ban for many personal reasons. Vaping is a way to stop people from continuing to smoke cigarettes, which have been proven to be significantly worse than vaping. I myself quit smoking cigarettes from vaping and it used a flavor called cereal. I slowly through vaping dropped lower and lower on my mg of nicotine. Many people cannot handle just tobacco or menthol to stop cigarettes they need a better flavor. Vaping has been to help ADULTS to help quit smoking!
Flavor bans will only create a unsafe illegal black market that will hurt everyone in our community. Flavored nicotine vapor products have been proven to be at a minimum 95% safer that deadly combistible cigarettes. Over 7 million people die every year from smoking related diseases, dont ban the solution to all these deaths.
A flavor ban would be detrimental for small businesses in Arizona. It would force hundreds of small businesses to close, which is the last thing we need right now in a recovering economy. Not to mention that it is 95% healthier than smoking cigarettes. A ban would force thousands of people who live here to return to smoking cigarettes, flavors have never been a problem everything that we consume on a daily basis is flavored from our milk to our alcohol to our chips adults like flavors too.
Flavored vapor products have helped me to remain smoke free for 9 years now. It has improved my quality of life, health, and the health of my family and children by removing second and third hand smoke from our lives.
Please enforce current laws and allow adults to make adult decisions regarding their options on smoking cessation. Look to massachusetts regarding the current thriving black market created by vapor bans, which compounds health and safety issues regarding life saving products
You can't say this is about public health while allowing cigarettes to continue to be sold. This is about money. As a voter I will remember come election time who put the health of the people up for sale.
A flavor ban would be detrimental for small businesses in Arizona. It would force hundreds of small businesses to close, which is the last thing we need right now in a recovering economy. Not to mention that it is 95% healthier than smoking cigarettes. A ban would force thousands of people who live here to return to smoking cigarettes, flavors have never been a problem everything that we consume on a daily basis is flavored from our milk to our alcohol to our chips adults like flavors too.
I was 25 when I discovered vaping. I was a pack a day smoker and had no intention of quiting. Unfortunately I also have asthma and was needing to use my inhaler multiple times a day. One day I drove past a vape shop and decided to stop by. I ended up buying a small device and two bottles of juice. Tobacco and banana muffin flavored. Hated the Tobacco flavor but loved the banana muffin. After vaping I haven't smoke a single cigarette and now I only need my inhaler when I am sick. it saved my life
I oppose banning flavors in vapor products. Vaping is 2x more effective than patches or gum to help smokers quit, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. The vast majority of adults prefer flavored products, because nobody that is trying to quit smoking wants to vape something that reminds them of a nasty cigarette. The CDC NYTS survey released last month shows that youth use is down 30%--we can find commonsense solutions that work for everyone.
Banning flavored vapor products only serves to create a boom in black market, unregulated vapor products that have a history of harming consumers. We should be educating children and teenagers on nicotine addiction, not demonizing a product that has saved millions of adults from a lifetime of addiction to much more harmful tobacco products, like cigarettes. A ban on these products helps only Big Tobacco cigarette manufacturers, and it would effectively destroy hundreds of small AZ businesses.
Cities that ban flavors have not seen drops in youth vaping because of it, but they do see adult vapers return to cigarettes. There are more effective ways to solve the problem without destroying the solution.
Hello. I’m a 17 year old girl and have been addicted to vaping since my freshman year of high school. I feel strongly that vaping devices should be banned. They are so addicting and have affected my life tremendously in a negative way. I just recently had to force myself to quit because I was coughing up blood everyday. Luckily I have a great support system with my parents but quitting was the toughest thing I’ve ever gone through. Vaping is destroying your kids lives!! Please ban them!!!
As struggling COVID-19 business if this bill is approved will have negative impact on large portion of specific side of my business. I will loose to surroundig markets outside Phx. Probably black marketers and more trouble for us to survive this issue
If retailers are forced to stop selling certain tobacco products, then customers will simply drive to another store in a neighboring city or purchase their preferred products on-line. The sales tax revenue the city receives will be greatly decreased and small businesses will lose the profits necessary to pay employees a livable wage. If children want to try tobacco products, they will try whatever they can get their hands on, regardless of flavor.
This ban will hurt our sales. We sell a lot of menthol cigarettes to adult tobacco consumers who are 21+ and our customers would go to neighboring cities to purchase their products instead of our business , been in business for 17 years and that will make a big difference in our life and Community
Banning the flavors cigarettes or vaping in Phoenix is not right. What is going to stop customer to go to Tempe, Mesa, Glendale and other close by cities to buy it? Phoenix will lose lot of tax dollars and small business will lose lot of sales and customer.
I personally am against the flavor ban for many personal reasons. Vaping is a way to stop people from continuing to smoke cigarettes, which have been proven to be significantly worse than vaping. I myself quit smoking cigarettes from vaping and it used a flavor called cereal. I slowly through vaping dropped lower and lower on my mg of nicotine. Many people cannot handle just tobacco or menthol to stop cigarettes they need a better flavor. Vaping has been to help ADULTS to help quit smoking!
Flavor bans will only create a unsafe illegal black market that will hurt everyone in our community. Flavored nicotine vapor products have been proven to be at a minimum 95% safer that deadly combistible cigarettes. Over 7 million people die every year from smoking related diseases, dont ban the solution to all these deaths.
A flavor ban would be detrimental for small businesses in Arizona. It would force hundreds of small businesses to close, which is the last thing we need right now in a recovering economy. Not to mention that it is 95% healthier than smoking cigarettes. A ban would force thousands of people who live here to return to smoking cigarettes, flavors have never been a problem everything that we consume on a daily basis is flavored from our milk to our alcohol to our chips adults like flavors too.
Flavored vapor products have helped me to remain smoke free for 9 years now. It has improved my quality of life, health, and the health of my family and children by removing second and third hand smoke from our lives.
Please enforce current laws and allow adults to make adult decisions regarding their options on smoking cessation. Look to massachusetts regarding the current thriving black market created by vapor bans, which compounds health and safety issues regarding life saving products
Adults have the right to choose flavors, just like alcohol
You can't say this is about public health while allowing cigarettes to continue to be sold. This is about money. As a voter I will remember come election time who put the health of the people up for sale.
We need to make vaping illegal and all sales need to cease and desist.
A flavor ban would be detrimental for small businesses in Arizona. It would force hundreds of small businesses to close, which is the last thing we need right now in a recovering economy. Not to mention that it is 95% healthier than smoking cigarettes. A ban would force thousands of people who live here to return to smoking cigarettes, flavors have never been a problem everything that we consume on a daily basis is flavored from our milk to our alcohol to our chips adults like flavors too.
I was 25 when I discovered vaping. I was a pack a day smoker and had no intention of quiting. Unfortunately I also have asthma and was needing to use my inhaler multiple times a day. One day I drove past a vape shop and decided to stop by. I ended up buying a small device and two bottles of juice. Tobacco and banana muffin flavored. Hated the Tobacco flavor but loved the banana muffin. After vaping I haven't smoke a single cigarette and now I only need my inhaler when I am sick. it saved my life
I oppose banning flavors in vapor products. Vaping is 2x more effective than patches or gum to help smokers quit, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. The vast majority of adults prefer flavored products, because nobody that is trying to quit smoking wants to vape something that reminds them of a nasty cigarette. The CDC NYTS survey released last month shows that youth use is down 30%--we can find commonsense solutions that work for everyone.
Banning flavored vapor products only serves to create a boom in black market, unregulated vapor products that have a history of harming consumers. We should be educating children and teenagers on nicotine addiction, not demonizing a product that has saved millions of adults from a lifetime of addiction to much more harmful tobacco products, like cigarettes. A ban on these products helps only Big Tobacco cigarette manufacturers, and it would effectively destroy hundreds of small AZ businesses.
Cities that ban flavors have not seen drops in youth vaping because of it, but they do see adult vapers return to cigarettes. There are more effective ways to solve the problem without destroying the solution.
Banning flavored cigarettes' would hurt small business and limit the choices of customers
Hello. I’m a 17 year old girl and have been addicted to vaping since my freshman year of high school. I feel strongly that vaping devices should be banned. They are so addicting and have affected my life tremendously in a negative way. I just recently had to force myself to quit because I was coughing up blood everyday. Luckily I have a great support system with my parents but quitting was the toughest thing I’ve ever gone through. Vaping is destroying your kids lives!! Please ban them!!!
I support this.
As struggling COVID-19 business if this bill is approved will have negative impact on large portion of specific side of my business. I will loose to surroundig markets outside Phx. Probably black marketers and more trouble for us to survive this issue
I support this.
If retailers are forced to stop selling certain tobacco products, then customers will simply drive to another store in a neighboring city or purchase their preferred products on-line. The sales tax revenue the city receives will be greatly decreased and small businesses will lose the profits necessary to pay employees a livable wage. If children want to try tobacco products, they will try whatever they can get their hands on, regardless of flavor.
This ban will hurt our sales. We sell a lot of menthol cigarettes to adult tobacco consumers who are 21+ and our customers would go to neighboring cities to purchase their products instead of our business , been in business for 17 years and that will make a big difference in our life and Community
Banning the flavors cigarettes or vaping in Phoenix is not right. What is going to stop customer to go to Tempe, Mesa, Glendale and other close by cities to buy it? Phoenix will lose lot of tax dollars and small business will lose lot of sales and customer.