I am a parent and preschool - college age health educator. Flavored products are being used by 97% of middle and high school students using e-cigarettes. 62% of Phoenicians support a comprehensive, enforceable ordinance that restricts the sale of all flavored tobacco products. Please consider researching all options in the sale of flavored tobacco products, one that will withstand the industry efforts to create loopholes and exemptions and ensure they still have access to our youth.
I feel strongly about protecting the health and well-being of today's youth. That's why I strongly support the ordinance to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products in Phoenix.
Tobacco is dangerous and should be strongly regulated. I urge the City of Phoenix to use this opportunity to explore all opportunities to do so to the fullest extent. Please prohibit the sale of flavors across all tobacco products with a tobacco retail license as an enforcement mechanism.
We are facing a looming public health crisis of unknown proportions from chronic lung injury due to vaping. Anything we can do to keep yet another generation from becoming addicted will help, and we know that flavors attract youth to begin vaping who might otherwise not. Unflavored products would still be adequate for the much smaller number of adults who rely on vaping products to avoid other tobacco use.
I wholeheartedly oppose this erroneous legislation. This will only put small businesses out of business and drive adult smokers back to combustible cigarettes which the vast majority will smoke until they die prematurely.
I am 31 years old and 6 years ago I was a 2 pack/day cigarette smoker. I tried patches, gum, and assorted other methods but nothing worked. A friend suggested that I try an electronic nicotine delivery system. After experimenting with flavor profiles and nicotine level, I found a solution that got me off cigarettes for good. Over the years I have gradually decreased my nicotine level from 18mg/ml to 1mg/ml and my health has drastically improved. Please do not take this option away for others!
I am writing as a parent of four young children and an educator to say that I support ending the sale of flavored tobacco products to protect Arizona kids.
Protect our kids from a lifetime of addiction. Nearly all (97%) current youth e-cigarette users use flavored e-cigarettes. In addition to e-cigarettes, tobacco companies continue to target kids with other flavored products, including menthol cigarettes and cigars and cigarillos that come in hundreds of flavors. The City Attorney should be directed to research all options to create an ordinance that addresses the sale of flavored tobacco products in the City of Phoenix.
American Lung Association in Arizona supports ending the sale of all flavored tobacco products. Flavor nicotine is unsafe for inhalation and has been associated with severe lung disease, according to a study 2015 study by the Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal. Flavors have been consistently cited as one of the main reasons kids prefer flavored tobacco products.
This is only a city ban not a state wide ban therefore it has no effectiveness to deter underage smoking.
The only affect is has it devalues and hurts the businesses in Phoenix. Your best defense in this matter is responsible retailers which we are.
Absolutely ridiculous how cigarettes are still ok and kill millions a year and your worried about flavors. Stop lacing your pockets with dirty money and leave us alone. This has saved my life and you want to take it away. God bless the communists we call our government. What a joke.
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids supports ending the sale of flavored tobacco products in the City of Phoenix. Youth e-cigarette use in the United States has skyrocketed to what has been called “epidemic” levels. It is a public health crisis and it is getting worse. Moreover, nearly all (97%) current youth e-cigarette users use flavored e-cigarettes. It's time for Phoenix to address this issue and protect our youth.
I’m the first defense to kids not getting tobacco products we take carding serious stores like mine our not the reason kids are getting there hands on tobacco thanks it will really hurt my sales please put this in consideration thanks
Anything that can be done to make a known dangerous substance less appealing to adults and children should be approved. It took years and years to lesson the appeal of cigarettes a known dangerous substance and now making another known dangerous substance taste like candy is going to cause a larger health concern for our population now and in the future.
im 41yrs old and without flavored vape products i wouldn't have been able to stop chewing tobacco 7 years ago. Doing this hurts a lot of small business, and has a high risk of pushing people like myself back to much more harmful products like Cigarette's and Chewing Tobacco.
the ban on flavored tobacco will impact businesses that are following the law and carding youths.
Flavors represent about 96% of e-liquid sales for local vape shops. Without these sales, locally owned vape shops would have no choice but to close down. A city-wide prohibition on flavors would send consumers to bordering cities and online platforms to buy their vapor products or, even worse, force them to go to the illicit market or make products themselves.
Vap ing is a safe alternative to smoking. Research has proven that vaping is a 95% safer alternative for adults who wish to quit smoking. Banning flavors in the city of Phoenix would not only impact small businesses who have already survived a onslaught of government regulations as well as the economic impact of the pandemic but, create job loss for all the employees who work in these businesses. Additionally this would reduce tax revenue for the city from these businesses.
I quit smoking by vaping fruit flavors, do not ban legal flavor products for adults. Prohibition never works.
I am a parent and preschool - college age health educator. Flavored products are being used by 97% of middle and high school students using e-cigarettes. 62% of Phoenicians support a comprehensive, enforceable ordinance that restricts the sale of all flavored tobacco products. Please consider researching all options in the sale of flavored tobacco products, one that will withstand the industry efforts to create loopholes and exemptions and ensure they still have access to our youth.
I feel strongly about protecting the health and well-being of today's youth. That's why I strongly support the ordinance to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products in Phoenix.
Tobacco is dangerous and should be strongly regulated. I urge the City of Phoenix to use this opportunity to explore all opportunities to do so to the fullest extent. Please prohibit the sale of flavors across all tobacco products with a tobacco retail license as an enforcement mechanism.
We are facing a looming public health crisis of unknown proportions from chronic lung injury due to vaping. Anything we can do to keep yet another generation from becoming addicted will help, and we know that flavors attract youth to begin vaping who might otherwise not. Unflavored products would still be adequate for the much smaller number of adults who rely on vaping products to avoid other tobacco use.
I wholeheartedly oppose this erroneous legislation. This will only put small businesses out of business and drive adult smokers back to combustible cigarettes which the vast majority will smoke until they die prematurely.
I am 31 years old and 6 years ago I was a 2 pack/day cigarette smoker. I tried patches, gum, and assorted other methods but nothing worked. A friend suggested that I try an electronic nicotine delivery system. After experimenting with flavor profiles and nicotine level, I found a solution that got me off cigarettes for good. Over the years I have gradually decreased my nicotine level from 18mg/ml to 1mg/ml and my health has drastically improved. Please do not take this option away for others!
I am writing as a parent of four young children and an educator to say that I support ending the sale of flavored tobacco products to protect Arizona kids.
Protect our kids from a lifetime of addiction. Nearly all (97%) current youth e-cigarette users use flavored e-cigarettes. In addition to e-cigarettes, tobacco companies continue to target kids with other flavored products, including menthol cigarettes and cigars and cigarillos that come in hundreds of flavors. The City Attorney should be directed to research all options to create an ordinance that addresses the sale of flavored tobacco products in the City of Phoenix.
American Lung Association in Arizona supports ending the sale of all flavored tobacco products. Flavor nicotine is unsafe for inhalation and has been associated with severe lung disease, according to a study 2015 study by the Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal. Flavors have been consistently cited as one of the main reasons kids prefer flavored tobacco products.
This is only a city ban not a state wide ban therefore it has no effectiveness to deter underage smoking.
The only affect is has it devalues and hurts the businesses in Phoenix. Your best defense in this matter is responsible retailers which we are.
Absolutely ridiculous how cigarettes are still ok and kill millions a year and your worried about flavors. Stop lacing your pockets with dirty money and leave us alone. This has saved my life and you want to take it away. God bless the communists we call our government. What a joke.
Take vaping items out of places that are not catered specifically to vape shops
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids supports ending the sale of flavored tobacco products in the City of Phoenix. Youth e-cigarette use in the United States has skyrocketed to what has been called “epidemic” levels. It is a public health crisis and it is getting worse. Moreover, nearly all (97%) current youth e-cigarette users use flavored e-cigarettes. It's time for Phoenix to address this issue and protect our youth.
Opposed
I’m the first defense to kids not getting tobacco products we take carding serious stores like mine our not the reason kids are getting there hands on tobacco thanks it will really hurt my sales please put this in consideration thanks
Anything that can be done to make a known dangerous substance less appealing to adults and children should be approved. It took years and years to lesson the appeal of cigarettes a known dangerous substance and now making another known dangerous substance taste like candy is going to cause a larger health concern for our population now and in the future.
im 41yrs old and without flavored vape products i wouldn't have been able to stop chewing tobacco 7 years ago. Doing this hurts a lot of small business, and has a high risk of pushing people like myself back to much more harmful products like Cigarette's and Chewing Tobacco.
the ban on flavored tobacco will impact businesses that are following the law and carding youths.
Flavors represent about 96% of e-liquid sales for local vape shops. Without these sales, locally owned vape shops would have no choice but to close down. A city-wide prohibition on flavors would send consumers to bordering cities and online platforms to buy their vapor products or, even worse, force them to go to the illicit market or make products themselves.
Vap ing is a safe alternative to smoking. Research has proven that vaping is a 95% safer alternative for adults who wish to quit smoking. Banning flavors in the city of Phoenix would not only impact small businesses who have already survived a onslaught of government regulations as well as the economic impact of the pandemic but, create job loss for all the employees who work in these businesses. Additionally this would reduce tax revenue for the city from these businesses.