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KANSAS CITY, MO – Stop a Flavor Ban!
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Bill
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10.22.24 – Committee Hearing: Neighborhood Planning and Development Cmte., 1:30 PM, 26th Floor, Council Chamber. Join Via ZOOM
10.10.24 – Full Council Meeting, 3:00 PM, 26th Floor, Council Chamber. Join Via ZOOM
10.08.24 – Hearing: Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee
Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 1:30 PM
26th Floor, Council Chamber
As expected, The Kansas City Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee voted to advance an ordinance that would ban the sale of all flavored nicotine and tobacco products. This includes vaping, nicotine pouches, and other smoke-free products that are helping millions of people move away from cigarettes. Following several concerns brought up in the full council hearing on 10/10/24, the measure is now heading back the Neighborhood Planning committee for further debate.
Meeting Details:
- City Neighborhood Planning and Development Committee
- Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, 1:30 PM
- 26th Floor, Council Chamber
- Residents can join remotely via ZOOM
Please make plans to attend this meeting in person or via ZOOM. Even if you don’t plan to speak, your presence is vital as it demonstrates how many people will be negatively affected by a flavor ban on safer nicotine products.
Prior to the meeting, take a moment to contact your city council member and urge them to oppose this ordinance. Make sure to share your experience with switching to smoke-free nicotine products and how a flavor ban would affect you.
- Urge your officials to oppose the flavor ban ordinance (file no. 240897) which would restrict your ability to use low-risk alternatives to smoking and send people back to smoking or to buy their vapor products from informal sources.
- File no. 240897 would ban flavored products already authorized for sale by the FDA as less harmful than smoking and appropriate for the protection of public health.
- Briefly, share your story about switching to vaping and what role that flavors play in helping you live smoke free.
- Note any health changes you’ve experienced.
- Briefly, discuss what losing access to a local supply of vapor products will mean for you.
- Be brief, Be kind, and Say Thank You 🙂
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