SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah is issuing a new emergency rule restricting the sale of flavored e-cigarettes and requiring warnings about unregulated THC products amid an outbreak of lung illness related to vaping.
The Utah Department of Health said in a statement Wednesday that all tobacco sellers will be required to post notices about the danger of vaping unregulated THC, which has been linked to most of the lung-damage cases in Utah.
Meanwhile, flavored nicotine e-cigarette products will be banned from general tobacco retailers to help keep them away from young people. Health Department Director Joseph Miner says many people who vape THC start with flavored nicotine. Specialty shops can still sell them.
Retailers will have until October 7 to comply.
Officials say Utah has been hit especially hard in the national outbreak.
