Prop 31 News Today

Despite the passage of Prop 31, an ATF director says California's flavored tobacco 'black market' is alive and well due to a loophole.

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Voters will have the final say Tuesday on whether the sale of most flavored tobacco products will be banned in California.

Californians will decide Nov. 8 whether to reaffirm a statewide ban on the sale of flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes. But the measure, known as Proposition 31, exempts hookah tobacco. Here are arguments from anti-smoking activists and hookah supporters.

How do you get a measure on the ballot in California? Hint: It takes a lot of money. And then there's the campaign to try to get it passed.

The committee supporting California's Proposition 31 — a measure that would ban in-person sales of flavored tobacco products — has received the overwhelming majority of its funds from billionaire Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and 2020 presidential candidate, according to campaign finance records.

California Proposition 31 is on the November ballot to overturn a 2020 state law banning the sale of flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes and flavored vapes.