The Big Apple will become the biggest municipality in the country to ban flavored vaping products as the City Council overwhelmingly passed legislation Tuesday that prohibits their sale inside the five boroughs.
Council members voted 42-2 to approve Manhattan Democrat Mark Levine’s bill amid a growing national vaping health crisis that has been linked to at least 47 deaths — including two in New York — and has put more than 2,200 people in hospitals this year alone.
New York will join more than 230 other municipalities that have already approved restrictions on flavored tobacco products — including San Francisco, which passed legislation in June outlawing e-cigarettes altogether.
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