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• Council votes to ban sale of flavored tobacco products  

Jump to full article: Staten Island (NY) Advance, 2009-10-14
Author: Staten Island Advance

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tore.NEW YORK -- The City Council voted overwhelmingly today to ban sales of all flavored tobacco products.

The bill bars the sale of products such as strawberry- and blueberry-flavored cigars and chewing tobacco, which health experts say are a blatant attempt to hook young people on a dangerous product.

Staten Island councilmen James Oddo (R-Mid-Island/Brooklyn), Vincent Ignizio (R-South Shore) and Ken Mitchell (D-North Shore) voted in favor of the bill.

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