SACRAMENTO, Calif. The sale of flavored tobacco products in California can continue, for now.
The flavor ban which includes menthol cigarettes was set to go into effect on Jan. 1. However, state officials agreed to delay the new law s implementation after opponents to the ban petitioned to bring the issue of the voters.
According to
The Associated Press, the offices of Secretary of State Alex Padilla and state Attorney General Xavier Becerra won t enforce the legislation until county clerks have enough time to verify that there are at least 623,000 valid signatures.
On Nov. 24, the California Coalition for Fairness said it submitted more than 1 million signatures from registered voters in a bid to get a veto referendum to overturn the legislation, SB 793, onto the November 2022 ballot, as
Effective date delayed for California s flavored tobacco ban
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