Sacramento, California – California could ban sales for disposable vapes under the offenders of the Law announced on Wednesday, which is aimed at combating plastic pollution in the country.
The state also adopted laws in recent years to prohibit one-time plastic bottles in hotels, sell food containers and disposable Trade bags and supermarkets.
Vapes, sometimes called electronic cigarettes, devices that contain aircraft containing aerosolised nicotine or cannabis, often with aromas and other chemicals. Replacing options and disposable sales, and California proposal would be especially involved in those who were supposed to be thrown after one use.
Other countries were considered or approved by disposable sales sales bats, with one Entry into force in Belgium 1. January and another set to start in United Kingdom In June. But California would probably be the first American state to bring such a rule. Previous efforts in California and New York failed.
The California account would prohibit the sale or distribution of new or renewed one-off weepings in the state, starting from 1. January 2026. years. The proposal would enable local self-government or the state for their first violation of the ban, $ 1,000 for their second violation and $ 2,000 for the next offenses.
AssemblyMemember Jacqui Irwin, who is the author of Bill, said that in the prevention of acid batteries from single rinsing in land and waterways.
“We must cross from these disposable devices, and AB 762 will do just that,” said South California Democrat at the Journalists Conference in Sacramento.
The Association of Groceries in California Trade was claimed against a similar proposal 2022. year, saying that to lead to increased tobacco smuggling.
Arkan Somo, who co-fed the Association of Neighborhood Markets, a group of California small business, said the new account would burden family ownership trafficking that to sell tobacco products.
“If we take the environment as an excuse to prohibit these products, where will it stop?” SOMO said. “They really put California at huge disadvantage.”
In recent years, the state has approved other measures to regulate the sale of the Vape. Gavin False Gavin signed the Law 2020. years that banned selling most Tobacco products with flavor with the aim of preventing their use among children.
Many of recent vapice regulations in states are focused on resolving risks representing public health. California and more than 30 other countries have passed laws that require e-cigarette taxes, according to American control and disease control centers. All countries in the US are already prohibiting sales of e-cigarettes to minors.
“Although these products pollute our planet, they also target our most vulnerable among us – our children,” said Tony Hackett, Californians with Californians against waste, and a nonfit group that supports the account. “Disposable loafs are designed for maximum addiction and minimum responsibility.”
The part of the disposable appeal is that they are often easier to access and cheaper than the filling device, CAROLIN SAAVEDRA said, staff with a public health law at Minnesota Minnesota.
But waste from e-cigarettes can contain heavy metals, dangerous lithium-ion batteries that can curse fires and chemical toxins, according to the CDC. The California account is a “exciting step” to fight that problem, Saavedra said.
“Continuing to press this conversation and emphasizing the group of this problem and how little – if any – benefits in all these items bring it, it will be huge,” she said.
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2025-02-20 01:20:00
