SB 38 is a Ban on Vapor and All Flavored Tobacco Products. This effects Cigar Smokers, Hooka Bars and Shops, Chewing Tobacco, Vape E-liquids, JUUL Pods, Snuffs and Menthol Cigarettes. This Bill also Affects Smokers that are looking to quit and try safer alternatives. 

As it reads:

This bill would prohibit a tobacco retailer from selling, offering for sale, or possessing with the intent to sell or offer for sale, a flavored tobacco product, as defined. The bill would authorize an enforcing agency to assess civil penalties under the STAKE Act for a violation of this prohibition. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature that these provisions not be construed to preempt or prohibit the adoption and implementation of local ordinances related to the prohibition on the sale of flavored tobacco products. The bill would state that its provisions are severable.

(a) “Characterizing flavor” means a distinguishable taste or aroma, or both, other than the taste or aroma of tobacco, imparted by a tobacco product or any byproduct produced by the tobacco product. Characterizing flavors include, but are not limited to, tastes or aromas relating to any fruit, chocolate, vanilla, honey, candy, cocoa, dessert, alcoholic beverage, menthol, mint, wintergreen, herb, or spice. A tobacco product shall not be determined to have a characterizing flavor solely because of the use of additives or flavorings or the provision of ingredient information. Rather, it is the presence of a distinguishable taste or aroma, or both, as described in the first sentence of this definition, that constitutes a characterizing flavor.
(b) “Constituent” means any ingredient, substance, chemical, or compound, other than tobacco, water, or reconstituted tobacco sheet, that is added by the manufacturer to a tobacco product during the processing, manufacture, or packing of the tobacco product.

California is 47th in the Country in Youth Smoking Rate. Under Tobacco 21 it removed PC 308 (a-f) which use to make it illegal for an adult to furnish tobacco products to minors and minor in possession had a consequences. We do not have a Youth Vaping Epidemic we have an enforcement issue. Jerry Hill removed this in his Law under T-21. 

If Flavor Bans were to Pass as written it still has no penalty for minors illegally purchasing the products out of state  or 18+ from legally buying out of state. This bill directly protects Californians Income From Big Tobacco Forcing people back on cancer causing combustible products. Flavors have play a key roll in helping people quit smoking. We should not deny Adult Smokers Access to Life saving technology. The FDA has stated that "Electronic Cigarettes may have the greatest impact on public health by being twice as effective of any Nicotine Replacement Therapy Product"  We need to invest in enforcement not prohibition, 

This bill will put over 100,000 Californians out of Jobs creating a huge Burden on local government and state resources. It may Cause 2500+ businesses to close and  1000+ Business to leave California.  

What We Need

We asking for your help. If Vaping has help you quit smoking, Help a love one quit Smoking and you are a registered Voter in California we ask you to sign the petition. We would love the support we can get but we need California to step up. Protect Adult Choices to Adult Products. Protect Your Rights Today, Sign and Share. 

If you're a Menthol Cigarette Smoker, If you Chew Flavored Tobacco, If you Smoke Hooka, If you own a business that sells these Products, If you use a JUUL or any other E-cigarette products we need your support.

Don't Let California use children as a shield to strip your rights as an adult. It is a parent job to raise their children not the State of California. 

Thank you for Reading and Support

Shane Simpson 

17 year Smoker who quit using flavored E-cigarette Products.  Proud California and Registered Voter.