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Arizona AG urges payment companies to block illegal vape sales
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- Nevada and other states' attorneys general urge major credit-card networks to block payments for illegal vaping, expanding a nationwide push to shield youths from vaping.
- A coalition including 25 attorneys general and New York officials requests specific firms to stop processing unlawful e-cigarette transactions, aiming to cut off funding for illicit sales.
- Officials frame payment networks as the financial backbone enabling illegal vape sales to minors, underscoring the need to sever funding flows.
- The coalition notes many online retailers fail to meet age-verification, registration and sales-law requirements under federal and state rules.
- Guidance draws on the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act to align online-vape sales with age-verification and registration standards.
- States have pursued lawsuits and referred violators to federal authorities for listing on noncompliant registries and enforcement actions.
- Letters seek meetings to discuss blocking noncompliant merchants and processors from using payment networks.
- New York-led effort extends collaboration with numerous states to push stronger oversight of online-vape sales by payment providers.
- Past government-private sector cooperation is cited as having reduced illegal tobacco sales, informing the vape-focused push.
- The coalition emphasizes protecting communities by cutting off money flows to bad actors and keeping unauthorized vaping products out of circulation.
- Ford’s Nevada-led initiative mirrors a broader national effort to curb illegal vaping through financial-transaction controls.
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