Bloomberg bankrolls California’s anti-flavored tobacco ballot evaluate

Tori Richards

October 14, 02:01 PM Oct 14, 02:01 PM

California is the land of bans: plastic bags, fuel-driven lawn machines, and egg gross sales from chickens that are not cage-free of charge.

Now, billionaire Michael Bloomberg has jumped into the fray, funding a ballot measure to outlaw in-man or woman profits of flavored tobacco. He has donated $15.3 million out of the $17.3 million elevated for the Proposition 31 committee, SF Gate documented.

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If the regulation passes, it would be a part of a record of other anti-tobacco legislation passed in the Golden Condition, which was the initially to outlaw cigarette smoking in eating places in 1995.

“Today about 2 million center and superior college learners nationwide use e-cigarettes,” reported the backers of the evaluate in the California voter guidebook. “Tobacco firms use candy flavors to conceal robust hits of nicotine, a very addictive drug that is particularly dangerous for kids, harming mind improvement and impacting their notice, temper, and impulse control.”

On the other side, Philip Morris United states of america and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company have donated a whole of $1.9 million to the “no” marketing campaign. The corporations say Proposition 31 is aimed at older people and should not be authorized to pass.

“Prop. 31 is an adult prohibition and prohibition has never ever labored — it did not perform with liquor or cannabis and it will not work now,” the voter information explained.

Bloomberg has been in opposition to flavored tobacco considering the fact that at the very least 2019 when he attempted to influence condition, area, and federal governments to outlaw the merchandise. At the time, he was running for president and mentioned all through his campaign that he would ban flavored e-cigarettes if he gained.