Sales restrictions on flavored tobacco products are gaining momentum

Truth Initiative

July 18, 2024

Local restrictions on flavored tobacco and e-cigarette products

Sales restrictions on all flavored tobacco products are gaining momentum at the local and state level. As of March 31, 2024, 400 jurisdictions and 3 Native American tribes have placed some type of restriction on the sale of flavored tobacco products, and of those, 127 have fully comprehensive policies that prohibit sales of all types of flavors across all products, including menthol/mint/wintergreen tobacco products that are sometimes exempted from flavor policies, at all retailers.

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Tobacco and baseball have a long, shared history. Is Zyn the latest chapter?

More than half of Major League Baseball’s 30 stadiums are tobacco-free as a result of state and local laws. Yet amid this progress, new oral nicotine pouches such as Zyn are gaining ground among athletes – replacing smokeless tobacco products (like chew, dip, and snus) that players have used historically.

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State fact sheets: Smoking prevalence, e-cigarette use, tobacco taxes, and more

The tobacco policy landscape and economics of tobacco control differ widely by state. View a state-by-state breakdown of cigarette smoking prevalence, e-cigarette and smokeless tobacco use, tobacco taxes, youth access laws, clean air ordinances, and quitting statistics and benefits, from Alabama to Wyoming.

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