Looming Hawaii Vape Law Destined to Destroy Small Businesses, Boost Cigarette Sales
A potential vape flavor ban is moving fast in Hawaii. It will destroy businesses and eventually lives, as myriad studies have shown that flavor bans increase cigarette sales.
Act Now: Oppose the Hawaii Flavor Ban
Hawaii residents are urged to oppose HB 756 and SB 1435, which restrict access to safer alternatives and threaten small businesses. Act through CASAA's call to action.
Details of Hawaiian Flavor Ban
✅ Ban all flavored nicotine products, including menthol
✅ Prohibit mislabeling of e-liquids as "nicotine-free"
✅ Establish enforcement measures through the Department of Health
✅ Allocate funding to hire additional enforcement personnel
Regressive Flavor Bans Punish Business Owners and Marginalized Group
Hawaii lawmakers are once again targeting flavored nicotine products, with both House Bill 756 (HB 756) and Senate Bill 1435 (SB 1435) aiming to ban their sale statewide.
Local vape shops and businesses will bear the brunt of this legislation, forcing many to close their doors, eliminating jobs, and reducing consumer choice.
Flavor bans are among the most regressive pieces of public policy imaginable, as they deny adult nicotine consumers the products they prefer and funnel adult vapers back onto cigarettes.
They also destroy small business, as stores that cater to adult nicotine consumers are denied of commercially viable products.
Studies have shown that is left in the rubble of failed flavor bans are a few obsolete tobacco vapes (manufactured by the tobacco industry) and an increase in cigarette sales
Clearly, the lives of adult nicotine users being funneled back onto cigarettes are of no concern to lawmakers. But as a business owner, you are able to make your voice heard.
Vape Prohibition Fall Out
As most adult vapers prefer characterizing flavors, they do not want or simply cannot afford the fake tobacco, fauxbacco flavored pod kits like Vuse, NJoy and Juul that are sold by Big Tobacco. This is why cigarette sales increase when flavor bans are passed.
Studies show that flavors play a key role in helping adult smokers transition away from cigarettes, making this ban a direct attack on harm reduction.
Teen Vaping Hits 10 Year Low
The untimely banning of flavored vapes merely creates a public health crisis and reignites cigarette sales. Teen vaping is actually at a 10-year low, making this pointless flavor ban exercise almost inexplicable in terms of science or harm reduction.
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