Supporters of the bill said cigarette butts, which are not biodegradable and are pervasive along the coast, do not offer health benefits for smokers, cost Los Angeles and the state millions of dollars a year to clean up and release toxic microplastics into the environment
Early this year, the Institute for Public Interest Representation, at the Georgetown University Law Center, filed a petition on behalf of Senator Frank Moss, the District of Columbia Lung Association, and the American Public Health Association before the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission, asking the commission to establish, on public-health grounds, a rule banning the sale of cigarettes yielding more than twenty-one milligrams of tar
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Archived from the original on November 13, 2014
As detailed in the policy paper accompanying the announcement, the proposed change will: Make it an offence to sell tobacco products to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009