Flavored tobacco sale ban, new excise tax goes into effect Monday
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A 75% excise tax on the wholesale price of nicotine vaping products goes into effect Monday.
Monday marks the beginning of a permanent ban on the sale of flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes and chewing tobacco in Massachusetts.
Under the law, such products may now only be sold in licensed smoking bars where the products are sold for on-site consumption.
June 1 also marks the beginning of a 75% excise tax on the wholesale price of nicotine vaping products, on top of the preexisting 6.75% sales tax, according to an announcement from Gov. Charlie Baker’s office.
The law, An Act Modernizing Tobacco Control, was announced in November, amid a hotly contested emergency ban on the sale of vape products across the commonwealth. That ban went into place on Sept. 24, when Gov. Baker declared a public health emergency following a series of mysterious lung-related diseases associated with e-cigarettes and vaping products.
Although the ban expired on Dec. 11, Baker and the Massachusetts Public Health Council approved legislation and regulations, respectively, intended to restrict the sale of certain vaping and tobacco products in perpetuity.
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