The Stockton Record: At the June 20 Stockton City Council meeting, city leaders adopted an ordinance that will ban the sale of flavored tobacco products and regulate the growth of smoke and vape shops in the city.
The Sacramento Bee: Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento joined other Black leaders on Thursday to host a “funeral” for menthol products, which they say have resulted in thousands of deaths in their communities.
INSIDER - One tobacco giant — Reynolds American — is actively spreading millions of dollars to hundreds of state-level political candidates and political action committees, according to an internal corporate governance document reviewed by Insider.
L.A. Times: Los Angeles will ban many businesses from selling tobacco products that come in sweet, spicy and minty flavors under new restrictions backed Wednesday by the City Council.
KFI AM 640: A split panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act allows the county's ban on certain tobacco products, striking down a challenge by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and other companies.
DAILY BULLETIN: A stop-gap ban on flavored tobacco products was adopted by the La Verne City Council this week as California voters await a statewide referendum on the matter.
Enterprise Record: Three students within the Chico Unified School District won a contest to have their drawings displayed on billboards across the city conveying messages about the dangers of vaping.
USC News: Models and celebrities exhaling clouds of e-cigarette smoke in music videos promote vaping to young adults in unregulated product placements, two USC studies show.
LA City Attorney: The Court’s Order enjoins Kandypens from engaging in youth-targeted marketing, and mandates compliance with California’s tobacco laws.
UCSF: In their paper, the authors write, “If e-cigarette consumer product use is not associated with more smoking cessation, there is no population-level health benefit for allowing them to be marketed to adults who smoke, regardless of the relative harm of e-cigarettes compared with conventional cigarettes..."
KUSI News: PAVe Ambassador Phillip Fuhrman joined Good Morning San Diego to discuss the “Get Your Head Out of the Cloud” youth vaping awareness campaign from the American Lung Association and the Ad Council.
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids: California SB 793, which ends the sale of flavored tobacco products was signed into law by Governor Newsom on August 28. Three days later, on August 31, the tobacco/vaping industry filed a referendum to repeal the new law which is set to go into effect on Jan 1. If the industry gets all the signatures they need by November 26, SB 793 would be at best, delayed until a ballot vote could take place in the November 2022 Election.
Los Angeles Times: California voters could be asked to overturn a new law banning the sale of flavored tobacco after opponents notified the state Monday of plans to seek a referendum on the measure.
Cal Matters: Cotton candy vape, tropical fusion cigarillos and menthol cigarettes will be extinct in California after a bill aimed at stopping kids from getting addicted to tobacco sailed through the Legislature today— and the governor almost immediately signed it.
Youtube: Powerful statement by @LoveLUVlife: "123 Lives a day ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. Inspired by leaders like @KarenBassTweets to speak out on big tobacco's menthol killing 123 Black Lives every day.
L.A. Times: Few bills that pass through Sacramento have as much potential to save lives as SB 793, which would ban flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes and vaping liquid, from being sold in stores in California.
Youtube: PSA video created by DMD 10th Graders Jonas Abrams, Maxfield Benbow, Clint Kessler, Shane Tilton, and Vincent Xie. This team created the original music, lyrics, and also filmed, edited, and acted in this video. Winner of First Prize in the 2020 San Francisco Unified School District "You Take My Breath Away” Competition.
