Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer directed the state's department of health and human services to issue emergency rules to ban the sale of flavored nicotine vaping products in stores and online.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer used her executive authority to ban flavored vaping products for six months.Michigan is the first state to ban sales of flavored e-cigarettes in a move the governor says will curb teen vaping.
"As governor, I'm going to do it unilaterally until I can get the legislature to adopt a statute and write it into law," Whitmer told MSNBC. "This is too important." Flavors are central to the debate. Some say flavors like bubble gum and mango lure teens to e-cigarettes while vaping advocates say they help adults to stop smoking.
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