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Connecticut & Maryland Eye Statewide Bans on Flavored Tobacco
NATIONAL REPORT Lawmakers in two more states are considering putting an end to the sale of flavored tobacco products within their borders.
If the measures get signed into law, Connecticut and Maryland would follow the lead of Massachusetts and California. However, California s flavored tobacco ban is on hold as it prepares to appear before the voters in the November 2022 election, as
Convenience Store News previously reported.
On Feb. 8, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong submitted testimony in support of state Senate Bill 326, An Act Prohibiting the Sale of Flavored Cigarettes, Tobacco Products, Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems and Vapor Products.
Maryland lawmakers are considering a statewide ban on flavored tobacco products, from cigars to menthol cigarettes and vaping products.Supporters of House Bill 134 contend the measure is designed to protect children. But members of the House Economic Matters and Health and Government Operations committees, which held a hearing Wednesday for the legislation, questioned whether it goes too far.Vape180, which has had two shops in Annapolis for almost a decade, carries a clever anti-cigarette message: Vaping is 180 degrees away from smoking tobacco.But what lawmakers are considering is making store management and employees anxious. The legislation calls for a statewide ban on all flavored tobacco products. We are actually pretty nervous about it right now. The primary reason is, during the pandemic, the last thing we want to do is to have our primary source of income taken away from us and have to file unemployment ourselves, said Tyler Ebadi, general manager of Vape180.Bill suppor
Maryland Democrats recommend legislative fixes to unemployment system
Ovetta Wiggins, The Washington Post
Feb. 4, 2021
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Bill Ferguson, left, is Maryland Senate president, and Adrienne Jones is Maryland House speaker.Washington Post photo by Michael Robinson Chavez
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Hogan administration to make immediate and long-term fixes to the state s broken unemployment system, which has been plagued with problems since the beginning of the pandemic.
Lawmakers said their offices have been swamped for months with calls from constituents trying to figure why their benefits are delayed or denied.
During a news conference to announce the legislative proposals, Senate President Bill Ferguson, D-Baltimore City, relayed the experience of a single mother of two boys who called his office in desperation. She said she had reached out to the unemployment office 500 times over six weeks without any response, Ferguson said,