Aldermen Leslie Hairston (5th), Susan Sadlowski Garza (10th) and Nicholas Sposato (38th) had delayed the measure's passage through a parliamentary maneuver last month, but Mayor Rahm Emanuel portrayed it as a public health issue, saying, "You can delay what we're gonna do, but you can't defeat it, because the votes are there." Burke submitted an amended ordinance Wednesday changing the tax rates, amending a proposal to set a "price floor" for packs of cigarettes and allowing 18-year-olds to sell, if not smoke, cigarettes
Could Maintain Connections to Smoking: Although harm reduction is the aim, some people may find it more difficult to completely quit smoking if they use vapes that taste like cigarettes because they unintentionally reinforce associations with traditional smoking
Gutka, khaini, and chewing tobacco release TSNAs and other carcinogens directly into the soft tissue of the mouth and throat
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Cultural References[] There's a segment during "A Bag of Weed" where the lyrics are displayed on the screen and a white dot bounces on the lyrics
