Boulder City Colorado Council To Consider Banning Flavored E-Cigarette Sales, Raise Age To 21
The trend is the latest public pushback
Boulder smoke shop retailers are worried their businesses could be doomed by new city regulations up for initial approval Tuesday.
City council is set to OK rules that would ban sales of flavored nicotine and tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and vapor liquid, raise the age to purchase them from 18 to 21 and to ask voters to approve a city sales tax on the merchandise. The measures appear for first reading on Tuesday’s consent agenda, which is moved forward automatically unless a council member wishes to remove an item for further discussion.
Boulder would become the second municipality in the state to prohibit flavored nicotine sales. Aspen this year became Colorado’s first. As of June, two states and more than 200 local governments across the country have passed restrictions on whether, when, where and how flavored smoking, vaporizing and chewing products can be sold, according to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
The trend is the latest public pushback against the perception the tobacco industry targets teens and young adults with candy and fruit-flavored nicotine-infused products that pose risks to health and form addictive habits.
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