A ballot fight over a ban on flavored tobacco in Denver has raised nearly half a million dollars. That’s according to campaign filings posted this month on the website of the Office of the Denver Clerk and Recorder.

Denver’s city council passed a ban on flavored tobacco last year.

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It aimed to stop the sale of products that public health groups say can lead to a lifetime of tobacco addiction. Vape shops and the tobacco industry called it overreach and fired back. They gathered thousands of signatures to successfully put the prohibition before voters in November.

Campaign filings show the repeal effort, organized as Citizen Power!, has so far brought in around $328,000. That’s more than

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