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Eric Adams: “We have already banned flavored e-cigarettes in the city.”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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New York City Press Conference on Illegal Vape Shops and Youth Health Initiatives

Published | Video Starts at 06:43

And it's exposing them to unknown long term health effects. And so our action today builds on our previous lawsuits against distributors and wholesalers whose activities have targeted middle and high school youth. We have already banned flavored e-cigarettes in the city. A successful initiative but we want to go further. And from the moment we were given the additional authority we needed from the state to shut down illegal smoke shot we move extremely quickly to exercise our enforcement in addition to today's suit. (06:43–06:47)

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