CMBailey
Member
New Bills 2068 in the House and 5803 were introduced to the Washington State Legislature within the past few days that would, if passed, do two things:
-Ban all flavored tobaccos. No flavored cigarettes, moist snuff (how dip is defined in our law), cigars, chew, and anything else except what is smoked in a hookah.
-Drastically increase our already extremely high tobacco taxes.
This article touches on it, but focuses mainly on Cigarettes and vape products. The bills themselves however touch upon all of the other tobacco products:
The bills can be read (search by the two numbers above at:
That website will also tell Washingtonian's who their elected Legislators are, and provides an easy way to contact them.
For Washington's dippers, I have to imagine that the loss of Wintergreen, Mint, Straight, and all the other flavors would be a significant hit indeed. Particularly as we are precluded from ordering online.
-Ban all flavored tobaccos. No flavored cigarettes, moist snuff (how dip is defined in our law), cigars, chew, and anything else except what is smoked in a hookah.
-Drastically increase our already extremely high tobacco taxes.
This article touches on it, but focuses mainly on Cigarettes and vape products. The bills themselves however touch upon all of the other tobacco products:
The bills can be read (search by the two numbers above at:
That website will also tell Washingtonian's who their elected Legislators are, and provides an easy way to contact them.
For Washington's dippers, I have to imagine that the loss of Wintergreen, Mint, Straight, and all the other flavors would be a significant hit indeed. Particularly as we are precluded from ordering online.
