Here are 10 of the most notable ones: 1
These compounds are, as their names might suggest, the active ingredients in vanilla and cinnamon, responsible for the flavoring properties of the plant
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What Is Banned Menthol cigarettes Flavored e-cigarettes and vape juice (including any characterizing flavor other than tobacco) Flavored little cigars and cigarillos Flavored chewing tobacco and snus Tobacco product flavor enhancers Synthetic cooling agents that mimic menthol (closed by AB 3218 in 2024) Limited Exemptions State law carves out three categories that can still be sold flavored, but only by retailers with a state license: Loose-leaf pipe tobacco with characterizing flavors Premium cigars with a wholesale price of $12 or more, handmade, wrapped in whole tobacco leaf, with no filter or non-tobacco mouthpiece Hookah and shisha sold at locations that only admit customers 21 years of age and older at all times Important note: many California cities (San Francisco, Sacramento, Oakland, Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Burbank, and Palo Alto, among others) have local flavor bans with no exemptions
Elsewhere, the documents highlighted the great lengths to which the industry had gone to intervene in public health policies which threatened their business
