Achievements
Current priorities:
- • Eliminate all flavored tobacco and electronic cigarette products, including menthol.
- • Increase the tax on all tobacco products, specifically traditional combustible products.
- • Improve retail licensing guidelines with greater fee for enforcement.
- • Limit permits for specialty tobacco retailers and maintain robust retailer permits.
- • Increase the number of tobacco-free campuses and universities.
- • Address preemption.
- • Tackle "PUP" laws by preventing fines on youth use.
- • Implement a waste disposal fee to address the high costs associated with e-cigarette hazardous waste and littered cigarette butts.
Significant tobacco control successes:
- • Taxed vape products at a rate that will significantly reduce youth purchasing.
- • Increased funding for state and local tobacco prevention and cessation programs.
- • Restricted the availability of flavored tobacco products.
- • Immediate enforcement of state and federal “T21” or tobacco 21 laws.
- • Closed loopholes that have allowed vape shops to set up next to schools, homes, and other “community locations”.
- • Increased the number of local health department underage investigations to ensure tobacco retailers are following state and local regulations.
- • Allowed local municipalities to pass community-supported tobacco control related ordinances.
- • Passage of the Utah Indoor Clean Air Act, which has also been updated to include vape products.
- • Developed standardized materials to help health care providers talk with their patients about tobacco cessation.
- • Passage of a $1.00 tax increase on cigarettes.
- • Regulating retail sales of e-cigarettes to prevent youth access.
- • Created a comprehensive hospital toolkit, which has led to many of Utah’s hospitals adopting a comprehensive tobacco-free campus policy.
- • Advocating for the regulation of candy-like dissolvable tobacco products in Utah.
