On August 4, according to foreign news reports, the Washington DC Commission voted in July to ban the sale of all flavored tobacco products, including safer alternatives such as e-cigarettes. As predicted, Mayor Muriel Bowser has now signed the ban into law.

After the council members voted, the proposed legislation was passed on to the Mayor of the District of Columbia, Muriel Bowser, who has expressed her support for the ban.

At the same time, tobacco harm reduction (THR) entities have long opposed such measures. A day before the council vote, a group of civil rights, civil liberties and free market organizations issued a warning letter warning of the results of the measure.

"Tobacco companies have been carrying out predatory marketing and practices in communities of color," said Queen Adesuyi, policy manager at the DPA Office of State Affairs in Washington, as quoted by the media. "However, banning flavored tobacco products will not make these products or the craving for them disappear. The substance ban will only make the use and acquisition of the substance more dangerous and risky."

Consistent with these arguments, data from the state of Massachusetts and the city of San Francisco, which implemented such bans, support these claims. A recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics found that following the taste ban in San Francisco, high school teenagers in the city are more likely to occupy less than where no taste ban is imposed on teenagers in American school districts to smoke. Before the ban, smoking rates in San Francisco were similar to smoking rates in many cities across the country.

In fact, an article in the National Review emphasized that although the legislators on both sides may have lofty intentions, those who promote such bans did not consider the pitfalls and consequences of this outdated ban.

"Although it is illegal to produce, import, transport, and sell alcohol during the Prohibition period, people continue to drink, looking for new and innovative ways to circumvent the law-even though the safety of alcohol has decreased. The alcohol ban has brought a series of Unexpected effects, from the rise of the illegal market to the real danger of excessive criminalization. We should not have any expectations of banning tobacco products.” The article emphasized.

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