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This bill bans the sale of electronic cigarettes containing certain toxic metals and requires a study on their long-term health effects.
Why it matters
Targets a wide range of toxic metals. The bill requires New York’s health department to develop and regularly update a list of specific toxic metals (like lead, manganese, nickel, chromium, zinc, and others) that are banned from any part of electronic cigarettes, including internal components such as heating elements.
Directly impacts manufacturers and sellers. Businesses involved in making or selling e-cigarettes must ensure their products do not contain any metals or toxins on the state’s prohibited list, potentially forcing changes in product design or sourcing.
Prioritizes consumer safety and transparency. By mandating the public posting of the banned substances list and ongoing department oversight, the bill seeks to inform consumers and hold companies accountable for product safety.
Pushes for better understanding of health risks. The required state-sponsored, long-term study on e-cigarette aerosol inhalation aims to fill critical gaps in scientific knowledge, which could influence future regulation and public health guidance.
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Ban Toxic Metals in Vapes
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Ban Toxic Metals in Vapes
In Senate Committee · Health · Sponsor John Liu
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STATE OF NEW YORK
647
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting the sale of electronic cigarettes that contain certain toxic metals and requiring the department of health to study the long term health effects of using electronic cigarettes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 1399-gg-1 to read as follows:
§ 1399-gg-1. Prohibition on the sale of electronic cigarettes that contain toxic metals. 1. The department shall establish a list of toxins which persons engaged in the business of manufacturing, selling or otherwise distributing electronic cigarettes or any agent or employee of such person shall be prohibited from using in the manufacture of such electronic cigarettes. Such list shall include, but not be limited to, lead, manganese, nickel, chromium, zinc and other toxic metals. Such list shall be regularly updated and shall be published on the department's website.
2. No person engaged in the business of manufacturing, selling or otherwise distributing electronic cigarettes or any agent or employee of such person shall manufacture, sell, or otherwise distribute electronic cigarettes that contain a toxin included on the list established by the department pursuant to subdivision one of this section, including in the heating element or any other internal part of such electronic cigarettes.
§ 2. The department of health shall promulgate any rules and regulations, including, but not limited to establishing a list of toxins that are prohibited in the manufacture of electronic cigarettes as
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01675-02-5
required by section thirteen hundred ninety-nine-gg-1 of the public health law, as added by section one of this act.
§ 3. Paragraph (v) of subdivision 1 of section 206 of the public health law, as added by chapter 100 of the laws of 2016, is relettered paragraph (x) and a new paragraph (y) is added to read as follows:
(y) direct the department to study the long term health effects on users of electronic cigarettes. Such study shall include data on the long term health effects of inhaling heated aerosols contained in electronic cigarettes.
§ 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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