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Pharmacies stop selling flavored e-cigs

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Pharmacies stop selling flavored e-cigs
Pharmacies stop selling flavored e-cigs

The sale of flavored e-cigarettes ended in New York state on May 18, as well as the sale of all tobacco products in pharmacies.

Anti-smoking advocates are saying....there's another problem we can't turn our backs on.

Youth vaping.

Pharmacies in new york are now banned from selling flavored e- cigarettes.

Bridges tobacco prevention and reality check call it a huge step foward.

New york is the second in the nation to take such action.

A reality check youth leader we spoke with....says people go to pharmacies for health reasons.

Selling these products is a conflict of interest.

2:25 especially with the flavors, they see something and they're like oh hey, that's mango, i want to try that.

And if you're going into a pharmacy, looking after your own health, and you're being marketed ty these harml products:42 it's king advaage of at you're goinginto 8 reality check is a statewide program.

The bridges program is local.

It spreads awareness and education in herkimer, madison and oneida counties.

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