"If reducing the health risks associated with cigarettes is a top priority for California, making e-cigarettes available in a variety of flavors to encourage people to switch to these vastly safer products should also be top priority."
The answer is simple, from 1999
through April 2017 California received
$14,824,535,963.49 in MSA funds. Why in gods name would you want to save lives and end the revenue stream by helping people move away from cigarettes? Only New York receives more @ $15,157,526,579.27 and is a least or possibly more aggressive in supporting vaping regulation.