Big Tobacco appeared to take a blow Tuesday night as San Franciscans were projected to move forward with a city ordinance outlawing the sale of flavored tobacco and nicotine products. The San Francisco Chronicle called the vote Tuesday evening with over half of city precincts reporting results. Proposition E, which asked voters whether the sale of products like menthol cigarettes or cotton candy-flavored e-cigarettes should continue in San Francisco, was funded by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company after the city’s Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a ban on such products last year. Voters decided Tuesday to let the ordinance go forward, siding with health advocates who say the flavored products target children. Groups who supported the sale restrictions included the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society and the American Lung Association.

Source: Huffington Post June 06, 2018 05:37 UTC