Boulder tobacco retailers starting in July will have to move through city licensing processes, after City Council unanimously approved new regulations Tuesday.
With the new rules, the city also closed an exemption in its flavored nicotine vapor ban approved last year. The original rule allowed a retailer to sell vapor flavors separately from a nicotine solution, but Council updated the rule in an attempt to nix that.
The new rules also put a voter-approved 40% sales tax on tobacco vapor into effect July 1.
It was the final move in a series of new regulations on e-cigarette vaping products made since last year by the city since parents and local school officials asked Council to implement measures that could help curb youth vaping.
