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Potential Vaping Ban Placed on Hold

A proposed ban on flavored vaping products won’t go forward for the time being after the Columbia City Council decided to table the idea at its regular meeting Monday.

The immediate moratorium on the sale of flavored vaping products was requested by the Columbia Board of Health.

The board is concerned about the dramatic increase of vaping among youth and a nationwide outbreak of vaping-related lung injuries.

But only 11% of such injuries were suffered by patients who only smoked nicotine vaping products, said Kevin Everett, an MU professor who spoke at the meeting in support of the moratorium. In other cases, patients reported smoking black market THC vaping products.

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