Raise the licensing fee for tobacco retailers from one-time $100 charge per location to $265 annually, and boost the annual fee for distributors and wholesalers from $1,000 to $1,200 to better cover the states enforcement costs.
This rule helped remove smaller 10-stick packs from legal retail sale
However, the study also noted that there was significant substitution with adolescents switching to either menthol cigarettes or other flavored combustible products like cigars, indicating that the public health impact would have been much stronger had the flavor ban applied to all combustible products as well as menthol cigarettes
Evans AT, Peters E, Shoben AB, Meilleur LR, Klein EG, Tompkins MK, Romer D, Tusler M
And just like a fine wine or coffee bean, tobacco is flavored depending on the region and soil in which its grown, or how its wrapped