The legislature has voted to charge a new tax on vaping products, nicotine patches and nicotine gum and will dedicate $3 million of that new state tax revenue to pediatric cancer research. Representative Tracy Ehlert, a Democrat from Cedar Rapids who voted for the...
The Iowa House has unanimously voted to send $3 million in state funds to the University of Iowa to support pediatric cancer research and clinical trials. “I’ll be the first to say it: $3 million is not enough to solve pediatric cancer,” said...
A bill setting a five-cent tax on vapes and nicotine pouches has won approval in an Iowa Senate committee. Tony Phillips, a lobbyist for RAI Services which sells VUSE, a digital vapor cigarette, and Grizzly Nicotine Pouches estimated how much the tax would raise...
