Meeting today at 3:30 at 800 Victoria Avenue Ventura California. Please show up and ask your leaders to vote NO. Please share this with all that will be impacted negatively by this ban.

"Banning or severely restricting the sale of products to adults always comes with unintended consequences. Not only do such bans reduce government revenue and harm retailers but they also encourage illicit markets and criminal activity. When markets operate legally for adults, compliance efforts can ensure that anyone selling illegally to youth can be held accountable. Criminal enterprises selling products in back alleys or out the trunk of cars—whether it be vapor products, cigarettes, cigars or OTP—don't check for identification, often don't sell regulated products and are not subject to compliance checks. Despite this reality, efforts to ban these products for adults do not seem likely to wane anytime soon. 

This is why retailers need to build relationships with their local lawmakers now and educate them on the importance of tobacco product sales to their businesses and the effects of banning entire product categories. These education efforts need to be ongoing to prevent wholesale bans of all flavored tobacco products."