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Retailers have 14 days to clear shelves of flavored vapes

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Michigan retailers have two weeks to sell off their inventories of nicotine-laced, flavored vaping products.   The state issued rules Wednesday to ban flavored vaping products.

        

       The state Department of Health and Human Services has already declared vaping a public health emergency. The department’s Bob Wheaton says that set the stage for the ban…

“Particularly when there’s these flavored vaping products that seem to be clearly targeting young people.”

The ban requires brick-and-mortar retailers to clear their shelves of vaping products that use flavors such as bubble gum, cherry, and popcorn. It also applies to online retailers that ship vaping products.
                Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced earlier this month that Michigan would be the first state to ban the sale of flavored vaping products, as well as a ban on marketing e-cigarettes as a safe alternative to tobacco.