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Testimony: Utah Considers Nicotine Content Limit for E-Cigarettes
Prohibiting e-cigarettes with a nicotine content that effectively competes with combustible cigarettes could prevent smokers from switching to safer alternatives.
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Testimony: Maryland Highways Need Expanded Capacity
Much of Maryland’s infrastructure is more than 50 years old and needs to be modernized.
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Testimony: Rhode Island Legislation Could Ensure Access to Safer Alternatives to Combustible Cigarettes
Rhode Island's continued prohibition of all e-cigarette flavors raises the risk of illicit products falling into the hands of both youth and adults.
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Testimony: Flavored Vaping Bans Could Fail to Improve Public Health
Flavored vaping bans will promote further inequalities in the criminal justice system, push tax revenue to other states, increase illicit trade, and fail to improve public health.
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Testimony: Prohibition of Flavored E-cigarettes Risks Fueling Illicit Market
Prohibition of flavored e-cigarettes, which are overwhelmingly the choice of adult vapers, risks fueling illicit markets, forcing the closure of Rhode Island vape shops and driving vapers back to smoking.
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California Bill Would Reduce Competition and Quality of Emergency Medical Services Provided
California bill would eliminate any need for a competitive bidding process for ambulance services and threaten the quality of the EMS services that citizens rely upon.
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Testimony: Tobacco Harm Reduction in the UK
Greater product choice and clearer risk communication from both the public and private sectors can ensure that smokers who wish to quit but find e-cigarettes or nicotine replacement therapies unsatisfactory have more options.
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Testimony: Maine Flavor Ban Could Harm Public Health, Hurt Tax Revenues
Prohibition of flavored e-cigarettes risks fueling illicit markets, forcing the closure of Maine vape shops and driving vapers back to smoking.
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Testimony: Public-Private Partnerships Can Leverage Infrastructure Investment
Public-private partnerships can offer a way to finance major highway and infrastructure projects that otherwise might not be pursued due to a lack of funding.