{"id":24094,"date":"2021-01-31T23:59:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T04:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=24094"},"modified":"2021-01-31T23:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T04:59:43","slug":"vaping-news-flavor-bans-are-a-financial-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/24094","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: FLAVOR BANS ARE A FINANCIAL FAILURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"13c8i-0-0\">&#8220;Just because a policy has already been documented to be a proven failure doesn\u2019t mean politicians will cease proposing it. Maryland, Washington, Connecticut and a handful of other states are considering bills to ban flavored tobacco and vaping products, even though this same prohibition has backfired elsewhere. Early results from the flavored tobacco &amp; vaping products prohibition enacted in Massachusetts show such bans deprive adults of less harmful alternatives to cigarettes, crush small businesses, depress tax collections as commerce shifts across state lines, and fail to curb smoking. If Maryland lawmakers and legislators elsewhere learn lessons from Massachusetts and heed the advice of non-partisan public finance experts, they\u2019ll reject the pending prohibitions.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/patrickgleason\/2021\/01\/31\/one-states-flavored-tobacco--vape-ban-is-a-cautionary-tale-for-the-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One State\u2019s Flavored Tobacco &amp; Vape Ban Is A Cautionary Tale For The Nation<\/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%20FLAVOR%20BANS%20ARE%20A%20FINANCIAL%20FAILURE\";<\/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;Just because a policy has already been documented to be a proven failure doesn\u2019t mean politicians will cease proposing it. Maryland, Washington, Connecticut and a&#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-24094","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\/24094","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=24094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24097,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24094\/revisions\/24097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}