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PALMDALE – Vaping advocates are pushing back in federal court against a newly enacted Palmdale city ordinance banning the sale of flavored e-cigarette products, court papers obtained Monday show.<\/p>\n
The suit, filed by the California Smoke & Vape Association<\/em> and tobacco retailer Cigs Plus<\/em> against the city of Palmdale, alleges the law is “overbroad” and will “destroy Palmdale’s nicotine vapor product industry, and damage the livelihoods of the workers that it employs.”<\/p>\n The Los Angeles federal court complaint, filed Sunday, also contends that the ordinance “will likely precipitate a public health crisis, as vapor products users turn either to combustible cigarettes or to black market sources to obtain vapor tobacco products.”<\/p>\n A member of the Palmdale city attorney’s office said the office had not yet received the complaint and declined comment.<\/p>\n The law intends to curb tobacco use among youth, and also prohibits the sale of tobacco- and menthol-flavored vaping products, which have “little to no effect on the recent increase of youth tobacco consumption,” the lawsuit alleges.<\/p>\n The ban, approved by the Palmdale City Council six months ago, is aimed at the fruit- and candy-flavored products popular among high school-aged youth.<\/p>\n The vape association is comprised of wholesalers, manufacturers of nicotine-containing flavored e-liquids, and brick-and-mortar retailers. The suit alleges that Cigs Plus and its employees “now face financial ruin as a result of the ordinance.”<\/p>\n The complaint seeks a court order permanently halting enforcement of the law, and reimbursement of legal fees.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PALMDALE – Vaping advocates are pushing back in federal court against a newly enacted Palmdale city ordinance banning the sale of flavored e-cigarette products, court papers obtained Monday show. The suit, filed by the California Smoke & Vape Association and tobacco retailer Cigs Plus against the city of Palmdale, alleges the law is “overbroad” and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":93708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15,1499,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}