{"id":23940,"date":"2021-01-19T20:18:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T01:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=23940"},"modified":"2021-01-19T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T01:19:00","slug":"vaping-news-bridgeport-connecticut-antz-lawmakers-pushing-for-flavor-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/23940","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT [ANTZ &amp; Lawmakers Pushing For Flavor Ban]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"65tj3-0-0\">&#8220;Advocates and lawmakers in Bridgeport, Connecticut, want the state to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products. Nearby states have already done so. State Senator Mary Daugherty Abrams co-chairs the state Public Health Committee. She sponsored a bill that would protect children across Connecticut from being lured into tobacco use through flavored products. Advocates from Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and the Bridgeport NAACP said flavored tobacco products are dangerous to the health of young people and lead to addiction, especially in communities of color.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BILL TARLING &#8212; <span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><em>They continue to use the fabricated &#8220;Protect The Children&#8221; pretense in order to dupe the public for support. All they are doing is driving people back to cigarettes and smoking in order to keep their tobacco revenue streams flowing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wshu.org\/post\/bridgeport-advocates-push-connecticut-flavored-tobacco-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bridgeport Advocates Push Connecticut For Flavored Tobacco Ban<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"VAPING%20NEWS%3A%20BRIDGEPORT%2C%20CONNECTICUT%20%5BANTZ%20%26amp%3B%20Lawmakers%20Pushing%20For%20Flavor%20Ban%5D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Advocates and lawmakers in Bridgeport, Connecticut, want the state to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products. Nearby states have already done so. State Senator&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent_news","category-vaping-news","wpcat-15-id","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23942,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23940\/revisions\/23942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}