To single out tobacco and nicotine while removing barriers to access for these other harmful products is governmental hypocrisy at its worst." After Massachusetts restricted the sale of flavored tobacco products in 2019, New York and New Jersey a year later banned the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, according to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
This data indicates a slightly higher tendency for rural smokers to receive professional advice and assistance, with urban smokers showing a greater reliance on counseling
Like traditional cigarettes or smokeless tobacco, the legal minimum age to purchase any e-cigarette in Florida is now 21
A 2023 study of the California Tobacco Control Program found that the program prevented the consumption of nearly 16 billion packs of cigarettes from 1989 to 2019, and that spending one more dollar per capita reduced average consumption of cigarettes per adult current smoker by about two packs a year
In the meantime, people who in the past have not been associated with the exercise of much direct power in American life (statisticians, cancer scientists, public-interest lawyers, teachers, public-service advertising men) and a small number of senators, their staff people, and some conscientious public servants in regulatory or other agencies, persevering through years of discouragement, have slowly but tellingly gathered momentum
