Editorial: No more excuses. Ban flavored tobacco products (via latimesopinion)
Tuesday in the California Assembly. Public health groups and other advocates of the ban are concerned that, once again, there isn’t sufficient support among committee members for the ban to pass. A similar proposal from the same author, Sen. Jerry Hill , stalled last year after being gutted with hostile amendments.
But that was long before a deadly infection that attacks the respiratory system emerged and spread across the globe. Infectious-disease experts say it is likely that the novel coronavirus willlike influenza, meaning it will be a persistent threat to humans, especially those in poor health, and managed only by regular immunizations, medicine and improved health.
The human and personal cost of smoking tobacco, meanwhile, far outweighs any potential drop in revenue for tobacco retailers. A pack-a-day cigarette habit costs as much as $3,000 per year in California, not to mention good health and possibly years of life. And while a ban would reduce tobacco sales tax revenue to the state by as much as $110 million in the first year alone, it could save an estimated $13 billion in annual healthcare costs.
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