Letter: Reject flavored tobacco ban

By Opinion Contributor

March 23, 2024

As a lifelong Maine resident it worries me to see that lawmakers are considering LD 1215, a policy that could hurt Maine retailers, taxpayers and the state economy by banning the sale of popular flavored tobacco and nicotine products.

I think a ban like this simply won’t work. People who use the products will still buy them — just across the state border or from the black market. This happened in Massachusetts, where cigarette sales jumped by 22 percent in neighboring New Hampshire in the first 12 months of the state’s flavor ban.

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