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'THIS DIRECTLY AFFECTS TAX REVENUE:' OHIO COULD ROLL BACK FLAVORED TOBACCO BAN
IN COLUMBUS

The Ohio Senate's budget plan would ban the sale of nearly all flavored tobacco
products, with the exception of menthol flavored products.
Author: Kiona Dyches
Published: 6:32 PM EDT June 28, 2023
Updated: 6:32 PM EDT June 28, 2023

COLUMBUS, Ohio — As the new fiscal year approaches, state lawmakers are
considering legislation that would roll back local tobacco regulations.

The Ohio Senate's budget plan would ban the sale of nearly all flavored tobacco
products, with the exception of menthol flavored products. It's an issue that
lawmakers on both sides of the debate are still divided on.

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"This directly affects tax revenue to the state. If states all over said, 'You
can't sell cigarettes inside our city,' that's, you know, could be tens of
millions of dollars of state revenues," said Senate President Matt Huffman.

"Menthol products are more popular in communities of color, and certainly if
we're going to be on the flavors. Last time I checked, menthol was a flavor
seems like that it should be across the board," Senator Nickie Antonio (D)
Lakewood said.


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Dustin Holfinger is the state government relations director, for the American
Heart Association.

"I started while I was playing baseball in high school and then moved off to
college and started smoking," he said. "It is a very difficult habit and
addiction to kick," Holfinger said.

With two days left to pass the state's budget, Holfinger is particularly
interested in the legislation that would nearly ban the sale of all flavored
tobacco products.

"While they're taking away the ability for communities to enforce their own
policies or craft their own policies and then enforce them. They didn't replace
it with anything to allow for proper enforcement," he added. 

The city of Columbus banned flavored tobacco sales in December. Bexley passed an
ordinance against flavored tobacco vaping products in 2020. Under the Senate
budget, those bans would go away. 

"We do not want local governments preempting the sale of an otherwise legal
product inside their city," Huffman said. 

Senators are working to pass the budget by the June 30 deadline.

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