December 08, 2022
( Washington, DC)– Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), reestablished the No Tax Aids for E-Cigarette and Tobacco Advertisements Act, which would crack down on e-cigarette companies and close a tax loophole that permits producers to declare federal tax reductions for the expense of advertising for e-cigarettes and tobacco items. Senators Brown (D-OH), Reed (D-RI) Durbin (D-IL), Van Hollen (D-MD), Merkley (D-OR) likewise participated reestablishing this bill.
In November 2022, the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Illness Control and Avoidance (CDC) launched federal information revealing that over 3 million middle and high school trainees had actually utilized a tobacco item throughout the previous one month. Over 2.5 million middle and high school trainees, more than one in 4, usage e-cigarettes daily. This comes as youth e-cigarette usage increased 1,800% from 2011 to 2019. More than 30% of teenagers who begin utilizing e-cigarettes start smoking conventional tobacco items within 6 months. More than a quarter of present youth e-cigarette users utilize and e-cigarette item every day. Over 85 percent of user usage fruit tastes. Among trainees surveyed, those who utilize social networks discovered that 73.5% of trainees have actually seen e-cigarette associated material.
” E-cigarettes are sustaining a public health crisis– especially amongst teens. E-cigarette and Huge Tobacco companies should be delegated intentionally advertising these harmful items to youth,” stated Shaheen “It’s outrageous that a tax loophole permits companies to cross out the expenses of their advertisements, having taxpayers bear the expense and support the advertising of hazardous items. That’s why I’m reestablishing legislation to close this loophole and hold e-cigarette companies liable for their hazardous marketing practices.”
” Old regulative loopholes are assisting Huge Tobacco addict more Americans to deadly items,” statedBlumenthal “This bill will close an open tax loophole, putting an end to Huge Tobacco’s tax write-offs of harmful advertisements and avoiding youths from launching a lethal dependency.”
” Taxpayers should not be on the hook for assisting e-cigarette companies hook kids on hazardous chemicals,” stated Reed “It is reckless to support Huge Tobacco.”
” There should not be a tax reward for e-cigarette companies to pitch their toxin to kids,” stated Durbin “As I have actually stated time and time once again, we understand that Huge Tobacco will attempt anything to addict our kids. We require to take this epidemic seriously. That’s why I’m joining my colleagues to present legislation that assists crack down on Huge Tobacco’s predatory methods.”
” We praise Senator Shaheen and Senator Blumenthal for their work to secure kids from e-cigarettes and other tobacco items,” stated Matthew L. Myers, President of the Project for Tobacco-Free Children “Tobacco items trigger dependency and damage health. Tobacco companies need to not get a tax break for advertising them.”
Tv and radio advertising for conventional tobacco items have actually been prohibited under federal law, and specific other kinds of Huge Tobacco advertising are limited under the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Arrangement. Nevertheless, none of these constraints use to e-cigarettes. While some tv outlets have actually begun pulling e-cigarette advertisements from the air in reaction to the continuous youth vaping crisis, the advertisements are still being run by other outlets. To make sure parity in between e-cigarettes and conventional tobacco, the Shaheen and Blumenthal bill likewise disallows tax reductions for advertising costs associated to tobacco cigarettes, stogies, snuff, chewing tobacco, pipeline tobacco, and roll-your-own tobacco.
Senator Shaheen has actually focused on efforts in the Senate to deal with the youth vaping crisis She led the bipartisan, bicameral intro of the Resources to Avoid Youth Vaping Act, which would need that e-cigarette producers pay user costs to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to aid to fund more activity at the FDA to conduct more powerful oversight of the e-cigarette market and boost awareness for the threat of e-cigarettes. In the FY 2023 federal government financing bill, Shaheen assisted work out more than $2.408 billion in financing for the Drug abuse Avoidance and Treatment Block Grant. The proposition likewise consists of report language included by Shaheen to address youth e-cigarette usage and motivates NIDA to support research study to establish treatments to battle pediatric nicotine dependency. Previously this year, Shaheen signed up with a bipartisan group of Senators in calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take long-overdue action to battle the youth vaping crisis, consisting of actions that might get rid of kid-friendly, addicting e-cigarettes from the marketplace.
Text of the legislation can be discovered here
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