The NYS Government needs to act to curtail the e-cig epidemic by enacting a variety of policy steps including banning flavors, expanding prevention education, funding research, raising taxes on e-cigarettes, restricting marketing, ensuring specific warnings/full disclosure of the chemicals and dangerous byproducts formed in e-cigs, and more
The fine for the owner of a restaurant, pub, bar and workplace that breaks the smoking law is a maximum of R50 000 and for the individual smoker R500 The tobacco industry can no longer use viral marketing like parties to target young people The sale of tobacco products to and by persons under the age of 18 years is prohibited Cigarette vending machines that sell tobacco products cannot be used to sell other products like crisps, chocolates etc
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Avoid any vape product containing diacetyl (linked to serious lung conditions), vitamin E acetate (connected to the 2019 EVALI outbreak), acetoin, heavy metals from low-quality coils, and unknown flavoring compounds