Market & legal data in the tobacco alternatives sector in Colorado

31st October 2024: US - Colorado: The Denver City Council is studying the introduction of a flavour ban on the sale of tobacco products; this ban would prohibit all flavours, including menthol, in all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes. Currently, the proposal is still a presentation and needs further development to be introduced as a bill. Denver is the capital of Colorado and has a population of more than 700,000.
16th July 2024: US - General: Philip Morris International (PMI) has announced it will invest $600m to open a manufacturing facility in Aurora, Colorado. Regular production is expected to start in 2026. “PMI and its US affiliates are accelerating their mission to move adults who smoke away from cigarettes in the US,” said Stacey Kennedy, president of Americas Region and CEO of PMI US, “by investing in new US manufacturing capacity to meet the increasing demand for nicotine options that are scientifically substantiated as better alternatives.”
16th January 2024: US - Colorado: Senate Bill (SB) 24-022 has been introduced. The bill would allow Colorado counties to regulate the distribution of tobacco products and nicotine products. The counties would also be entitled to prohibit the sale and distribution of flavoured tobacco and nicotine products.
9th November 2023: US - Colorado: Proposition II, Tobacco and Nicotine Product Tax Revenue Measure (2023) was approved by public vote on the 7th November ballot. This means that the voters supported the measure to “allow the state to keep revenue that exceeds official projections from increased taxes on cigarettes, tobacco, and nicotine products, which voters approved as Proposition EE in 2020; and require the state to spend this revenue on preschool programs”.
11th May 2022: US - Colorado: House Bill 22-1064 failed to pass the Senate Appropriations Committee, which rejected it yesterday by a 5-2 vote, local media reports. The bill would have banned the sale of flavoured cigarettes, tobacco products, and nicotine products. The senators also explained the bill's failure by saying that the ban would just lead to tobacco and nicotine users buying flavoured products online or out of state, describing youth tobacco use as inevitable but improving.
10th May 2022: US - Colorado: House Bill 22-1064 has passed the Senate Committee on Finance after amendments and has been referred to the Senate Committee on Appropriations. This bill would prohibit the distribution of flavoured cigarettes, tobacco products, or nicotine products, and would amend the definition of cigarette, tobacco product, or nicotine product to include products containing synthetic nicotine.
5th May 2022: US - Colorado: House Bill 22-1064 was approved by the state House yesterday and sent to the Senate for consideration, local media reports. The bill would prohibit the distribution of flavoured cigarettes, tobacco or nicotine products, including those containing synthetic nicotine. Since its introduction, the bill has been changed to exempt hookahs, premium cigars and pipe tobacco.
5th April 2022: US - Colorado: The Finance Committee held a hearing yesterday on House Bill 22-1064, which would prohibit the distribution of flavoured cigarettes, tobacco products, or nicotine products, including those containing synthetic nicotine. Opponents of the bill, which was introduced early this year, argue that the pre-kindergarten (pre-K) program would take a big funding hit as it is currently supported by the state nicotine tax, following a 2020 ballot vote. Democrat representative Kyle Mullica said: “We always run that risk when we want to fund these important programs off of taxes like this that are vices. I think hopefully we start maybe getting away from that because I don’t think that’s probably the most appropriate way to fund these programs.”

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