The US city of Bangor issued an ordinance banning the sale of all flavored tobacco products from June 1. But now the city has had to delay the ban after failing to notify businesses.

"The ordinance passed here does not address or give tobacco licensees the 30-day notice required by the legislation," said city attorney David Szewczyk.

Bangor City Council initially expected to ban all flavoured tobacco products from June 1.

Now, they plan to repeal the current statute and issue a new statute this summer.

"If we don't repeal the ordinance, business owners in town may be confused. It's not something we should be enforcing because we're not directly adhering to state law," said Assistant City Manager Courtney O'Donnell.

The push to ban all flavored tobacco products is part of an effort to protect teens from addiction.

This includes e-cigarettes and mint-flavored products.

"If kids can't use tobacco-flavored products, they won't use them. So the way to make sure that happens is to take them off the market," said BJ McCollister, campaign manager at Flavor Hook Kids Maine.

According to the Maine Comprehensive Youth Survey, nearly 29 percent of Maine high school students are currently using e-cigarettes.

And that number keeps climbing.

"The tobacco industry is targeting children. Their advertising is designed to appeal to children. You see vape shops using back-to-school sales and flavors like marshmallow to get kids hooked on the product," McCollister said.

Bangor was the first city in Maine to ban all flavored tobacco sales, followed by Portland and Brunswick.

As of now, the city must start repealing its ordinance, O'Donnell said.

“The consensus of the council is to repeal the decree that will go into effect on May 9. They will have to drop one of the required readings because once the repeal is voted on, it will take 10 days to go into effect. If we don’t drop that reading , then we will actually pass the June 1 date," O'Donnell said.

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