Bill to ban flavored vaping liquid dies in Colorado legislature

A bill that would have banned the sale of most flavored nicotine products in Colorado failed to get out of a Senate committee Tuesday, effectively killing it for this session.

House Bill 1064 would have banned all flavored tobacco products and nicotine liquids, except “premium cigars” and hookah tobacco.

Some flavored tobacco products may still be leaving the shelves soon, though. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed banning menthol from cigarettes and all flavors from cigars. Flavored combustible cigarettes were banned in 2009.

Technically, most vaping liquids aren’t supposed to be on the market while the FDA evaluates them, but no one is enforcing that.

Amanda Wheeler, president of the American Vapor Manufacturers, released a statement praising the Senate appropriations committee’s vote not to advance the bill.

“Colorado rejecting the flavor ban is a signal for other jurisdictions to refocus public health efforts on what works — vaping,” she said. “Nicotine vaping is the single most effective smoking cessation method ever devised.”