Other cities have passed laws reducing access to flavored vaping liquids and flavored tobacco but San Francisco is the first in the country to approve a sales ban. Gregory Conley, president of the American Vaping Association, a nonprofit organization that advocates for vaping products, said the ordinance is "complete nonsense" and ignores the benefits of flavored vaping products. "Unfortunately, San Francisco supervisors ignored that data and the stories about how vaping was the only thing that helped many smokers quit," he said. The San Francisco ban is the latest restriction on tobacco products approved in California. But it does not prohibit the sale of menthol cigarettes or flavored tobacco products other than cigarettes.

Source: ABC News June 21, 2017 20:36 UTC