A Georgia House panel approved a measure Wednesday that would allow a “modified risk’’ tobacco product to have a tax that’s half of what exists now for cigarettes sold in the state.
The FDA has yet to approve such a product to be sold in the U.S. — or to be marketed as being less harmful.
Nevertheless, a subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee, on a 5-2 vote, passed House Bill 877. The main sponsor of the bill, Chad Nimmer, a Blackshear Republican, told the lawmakers that the bill does not seek to lure teenagers into using tobacco products.
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