Is our legislature now going to reverse the will of Mainers and ban those flavored marijuana products too? Peter Brennan, Executive Director, New England Convenience Store and Energy Marketers Association, which has approximatelty 1,000 members in Maine, warned Massachusetts has lost $140 million in sales and excise taxes since imposing a flavored tobacco ban in 2020
Louis Public Radio and NPR
Although these marketing tactics are banned for cigarette and smokeless tobacco companies by the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement and the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (put into effect due to the close association with sponsoring music, sports, and other cultural events with youth tobacco use), e-cigarette companies have been able to skirt these restrictions by claiming that their products are different than conventional cigarettes
Since my dad was a non-smoker, this fact really intrigued me as a young boy
Adam, T., McAughey, J., McGrath, C., Mocker, C
