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Medicine's Erika Trapl discusses tobacco policies

MEDIA | July 21, 2023
STORY BY: EDITORIAL STAFF

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cleveland.comErika Trapl, associate professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, noted that a toothless version of a prohibition on flavored e-cigarette sales—coupled with a “preemption” rule that would block Ohio’s progressive cities from passing local tobacco laws stricter than those set by conservative state lawmakers—would reverse years of progress cutting down on tobacco use.