Alaska posted the nation’s highest rate of increase in e-cigarette use by young adults from 2016 to 2021, according to a report. Via AlaskaBeacon
, would raise the legal age for purchase of e-cigarette products from the current 19 to 21. It would also impose Alaska’s first state tax on e-cigarette products. Although municipalities around the state impose taxes on e-cigarette products, the state has not changed its tobacco taxes since 2006, a time before vaping products became widely used.
The bill is sponsored by Senate President Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak. It is pending in the Senate Labor and Commerce Committee, where it is scheduled to get its next hearing on April 21.Lawmakers last year passed a similar bill that was also sponsored by Stevens, but Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed it, citing opposition to the tax provision. The tax structure in this year’s bill is different from that in the bill vetoed by Dunleavy.
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