Meeting Time: October 14, 2020 at 8:30am MST
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3* Federal and State Law on E-Cigarettes (Vaping)

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    Anthony Mustacchio about 4 years ago

    I have seen to many of my fellow peers fall to nicotine addiction and 80% of teens who vape started because of flavors.

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    Richard Andrade about 4 years ago

    I support the ban on flavored tobacco products which is persuading our youth to consume this type of tobacco products. We should be putting public health as a priority over corporate profits.

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    Courtney Ruiz about 4 years ago

    Flavored products are being used by 97% of middle and high school students using e-cigarettes. 62% of Phoenicians support a comprehensive and enforceable ordinance that restricts the sale of all flavored tobacco products. The City attorney needs to research all options to address 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.

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    Dimitris agrafiotis about 4 years ago

    From the 2017-18 California Youth Tobacco Survey (CYTS) and found that despite flavor restrictions in some localities, youth use of e-cigarettes in those areas increased after the bans went into place. Addressing youth use of age-restricted products is laudable, flavor bans are ineffective measures to reduce youth e-cigarette and tobacco use. Rather than pushing forward with draconian bans, lawmakers should dedicate more of the existing tobacco monies towards education and prevention programs.

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    Kris Albright about 4 years ago

    I oppose the flavor ban. Prohibition doesn't work.

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    Geoffrey Brake about 4 years ago

    I do not approve of the flavor ban this will kill our business. If this gets approved I will be out of a job you would be also killing the industry in airzona. I have also use flavor vapor products to quit smoking cigarettes .
    Banning flavors in not route to go on stopping kids from getting ahold of products online sales would still be an issue and this will cause a black market for vaping.

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    Jason Stuck about 4 years ago

    Yet another law attempting to solve a problem that can be solved at the home, made by people who cannot accept they suck at parenting their children. Dont make everyone else suffer due to some parents blatent lack of responsibilty

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    Tyler Ericson about 4 years ago

    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.

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    James Franchino about 4 years ago

    I’m a 40-year-old man who smoke regularly since I was 15 years old. The patch, the gum, prescriptions, they never worked and I always went back to smoking. And 2012 I picked up my first Vape, with a fruit blend flavor and never even finished the pack of cigarettes that I had. I haven’t smoked a cigarette since. Banning these flavors will only lead people back to smoking. Please don’t do this. Thank you.

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    Jason Maxwell about 4 years ago

    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. Customers may also turn to black market sellers who will readily supply smuggled flavored tobacco products and electronic cigarette products to anyone of any age. Elected officials should not enact a law that would promote more crime in a community.

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    Adnan Alassadi about 4 years ago

    Owner

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    Joel BakerHesch about 4 years ago

    It would be a great travesty to see a technological innovation, one created by former smokers, that has helped millions of Americans quit combustible cigarettes — be needlessly destroyed by bad regulations. Meanwhile, legal and deadly cigarettes will remain on the shelves of every convenience store.

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    Michael Peterson about 4 years ago

    Smoking for 29 years stopped when I began using flavored e-liquid for vapor products. I use flavored vapor products to deliver nicotine instead of combustible tobacco products. Without flavors, I am certain I would have remained a smoker. These products are already marked as illegal for minors via age restriction, why go further and restrict access to adults who legally purchase them?

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    Angila Weber about 4 years ago

    If you're going to ban flavors on e-liquid, you better ban all the flavors of alcohol! I smoked for 10 years, vaped for 2 and now I am smoke and vape free! If it weren't for the FLAVORED e-liquid , I don't think I would have been able to quit smoking. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Do NOT ban flavors. Thank you

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    Matt Berger about 4 years ago

    As the owner of the Valley’s longest running vape shop, I have a financial stake in opposing the ban, but also the experience of nearly a decade of personal use and the experiences of thousands of customers. Is it more likely for those that are underage to desire flavors, sure. But underage users are drawn towards high nicotine disposables, not open source systems sold at shops. The same holds for adults that are looking for a very important form of harm reduction.
    Thank you for your time.

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    Thomas Howard about 4 years ago

    As a 63 year old Phoenician, who quit a 30 year smoking habit with flavored e-liquid after everything else failed, I urge the Council & Mayor not to enact this Flavor Ban. Frankly, this type of action is what Leftist local & state governments do. This is Arizona, not Massachusetts. This is Phoenix, not San Francisco. We oppose Nanny-ism, especially when it would adversely impact public health. Teen vaping is going down, not up. The “epidemic” has always been just a “fad.”

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    Carlos Coe about 4 years ago

    Prohibition is a failed concept and to enact this flavor ban you’re violating and abusing personal liberties that Arizona has championed for decades. Consenting adults should be free to use a less harmful alternative to tobacco whether it is candy or tobacco flavored - to deny this to the people is to drive them into the arms of big tobacco and cigarette companies.

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    James Jarvis about 4 years ago

    A flavor ban will do nothing but force adults back to cigarettes which kills 480k Americans a year. Nicotine vaping has still killed nobody. 95% of the adult vapers use flavors. The federal age to buy these products is now 21 and over. If a flavor ban is enacted, it will lead to increased death and cancer rates in the US. Flavors are not the issue.

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    Tom Morawetz about 4 years ago

    Flavors save lives. After 45 yrs smoking I quit using flavored e-liquid. I stopped overnight and have been smoke free for 3.5 yrs.

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    Tanner Fagotti about 4 years ago

    Flavor ban is not a way around the "problems" that we are having. Look at what other countries have done with vaping. maybe take a step back and listen instead of just acting.