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An online Change.org petition is asking the Columbia Board of Education to consider student masking again, before its next regular meeting on Monday. ....
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COLUMBIA- The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will work to prohibit menthol cigarettes and all flavored cigars as soon as next year. The FDA stated that it hopes the prohibition of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars in the next year. The FDA says that the prohibition of menthol flavored cigarettes and all flavored cigars will help reduce youth initiation to tobacco. They also stated that they hope the prohibition will help combat the targeting of Black communities. The prohibition of flavored cigarettes and cigars first gained traction in 2009 with the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which prohibited flavored cigarettes and cigarette smoke but failed to include menthol. ....
By Caitlin King & Columbia Missourian • Jan 29, 2021 JEFFERSON CITY A bill to further regulate tobacco products and modify the Clean Air Act was read to the Committee for Seniors, Families, Veterans & Military Affairs Wednesday morning. Sponsored by Sen. Lincoln Hough, R-Springfield, Senate Bill 124 would reaffirm the 2019 Tobacco 21 federal law that raises the legal age to purchase “certain tobacco, alternative nicotine or vapor products” to 21 years old. The Clean Air Act would now include vapor products such as electronic cigarettes and vapor cartridges in the definition of “smoking,” which means those products would be included in the ban on smoking in public places and child day care facilities, outside of designated areas. ....