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Sales Of E-Cigarettes To Minors To Be Banned In Tennessee

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Lawmakers have voted to ban sales of vaping products to people under 18. Credit: Mike Mozart via Flickr
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Tennessee lawmakers have voted to ban sales of e-cigarettes and other vaping products to anyone under 18.

The decision extends the state’s ban on sales of cigarettes to minors. Rep. Joe Towns (D-Memphis) says the measure, Senate Bill 411, will keep teenagers from harming themselves.

“It’s a good piece of legislation,” he says. “(We) should have done it a long time ago.”

The bill would go into effect July 1, if signed by Gov. Bill Haslam.

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Chas Sisk, Senior Editor

Chas joined WPLN in 2015 and became an editor in 2018. Previously, he covered state politics for Nashville Public Radio and The Tennessean, and he’s also reported on communities, politics and business for a variety of publications in Massachusetts, New York and Washington, D.C. Chas grew up in South Carolina and attended Columbia University, where he studied economics and journalism.

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