Published: April 28, 2023
By: McKinley Cobb, LSU Manship School News Service
BATON ROUGE–The House Judiciary Committee voted 7-3 Thursday to advance a bill prohibiting flavored nicotine products used in vaping.
HB 179 was authored by Rep. William Wheat, R-Ponchatoula. Wheat was concerned with the rising use of vapor and tobacco products by younger people. He described it as being “in epidemic proportions.”
Witnesses testified about the dangers of vaping. One witness was the mother of a Baton Rouge boy who died after using vapor and nicotine products.
According to Wheat, 52% of high school students have tried e-cigarettes–three times as many as in a study done in 2015.
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