A handful of e-cigarette shop owners in Massachusetts are suing over the state’s temporary ban on all vape products, arguing the ban is unconstitutional.
A handful of e-cigarette shop owners in Massachusetts are suing over the state’s temporary ban on all vape products, arguing in court documents that it is unconstitutional, one of them telling ABC News that his seven years of hard work in building his business was"gone in five minutes."
In a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court District of Massachusetts on Sunday, three shop owners representing seven stores are suing the state as well as Massachusetts Gov. Charles Baker and Department of Public Health Commissioner Monica Bharel over the governor's four-month ban on all vape products that was announced last Tuesday.
"Some of my other clients also have other services or items for sale in their shops, but the vapor products are 100% of what Behram sells at his shops, so he’s out of business," Rourke said."No warning was given, I found out on Twitter that the ban was happening, and then everything went into chaos," he said."Seven years of hard work gone in five minutes."
"I have a veteran who lives in Beverly, she has no way to go to New Hampshire to go to store," he said."And a lot of customers have told us that they have switched to cigarettes already." "This outbreak does not appear to be associated with traditional legally-sold e-cigarettes, but with illicit and sometimes counterfeit THC vaping cartridges," said Dr. Michael Siegel, a professor at Boston University School of Public Health.
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