LANSING – A six-bill bipartisan package that includes treating vaping like a tobacco product and taxing it at 24% was introduced this week in the Michigan Senate. The flagship bill is SB 781, sponsored by Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich (D-Flint), that would place vaping products under Michigan’s “Tobacco Products, Tax Act.”
This approach is more in line with what both the administrations of former Gov. Rick Snyder and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer support. The American Cancer Society backs the approach, as well.
“When a new tobacco product shows up on the market, it’s the Legislature’s responsibility to make sure folks understand how to legally purchase, sell and consume these items,” Ananich told MIRS. “Our bipartisan bills will clear up any confusion, keep vapes out of kids’ hands and set fair regulations for these products that are similar to how we treat any other tobacco product.”
The other bills in the package are SB 782, SB 783, SB 784 and SB 785.
The package of bills has been sent to the Senate Regulatory Reform Committee.
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But it’s NOT tobacco. In fact, it gets people OFF of tobacco. The illnesses came from black market THC pods infused with vitamin e acetate. Bills like this will only embolden that black market and make that problem worse, while making the safer alternative to smoking harder for people to obtain, while also scaring the ignorant into thinking it must be just as bad as cigarettes. Government should keep it’s filthy hands out of the market and actually try to fix real problems.
[…] Produits de vapotage traités comme du tabac en vertu des nouveaux projets de loi du Sénat du Michi…______________________________________________________________________ACTUALITÉS: (WYOMING) HB 205, qui aurait prélevé une taxe de gros de 56% sur le vapotage et autres alternatives plus sûres aux cigarettes, ECHEC A PASSER! Malheureusement, l'État fait toujours face à une interdiction de vente en ligne (SF 52) qui nuirait aux adultes qui vapotent / fument! […]
[…] Produits de vapotage traités comme du tabac en vertu des nouveaux projets de loi du Sénat du Michi…______________________________________________________________________ACTUALITÉS: (WYOMING) HB 205, qui aurait prélevé une taxe de gros de 56% sur le vapotage et autres alternatives plus sûres aux cigarettes, ECHEC A PASSER! Malheureusement, l’État fait toujours face à une interdiction de vente en ligne (SF 52) qui nuirait aux adultes qui vapotent / fument! […]
If vape gets taxed as a tobacco product, shouldn’t the only thing being taxed is the nicotine? Nicotine is the only thing vaping and cigarettes have in common. Juice by itself should stay the same and the devices are tobacco free.
Hello. Whatever the new processes are to be, please let all of us know, a heads up would be greatly appreciated. also, in a timely manner so aqs we can prepare, unlike previous rules where it left little time to comply.
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