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NJ Senate Health Committee votes for ban on flavored ecigs (John Ensslin, The Record)

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The NJ Senate Health Committee voted through a bill to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, due to their attraction to young people. Senator Joseph Vitale chairs the Committee and sponsored the bill.

GASP’s Executive Director Karen Blumenfeld, Esq. shared that nicotine and other chemicals in e-cigarettes can pose a health risk, and that long-term nicotine use is not recommended by FDA approved smoking cessation devices that contain nicotine.

Read the full Record article here.