Bloomberg Trying to Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes
In a set of bills that also looks to raise the smoking age to 21, set a minimum price for cigarettes, and ban tobacco coupons
In a set of bills that also looks to raise the smoking age to 21, set a minimum price for cigarettes, and ban tobacco coupons
Prohibition is creating a tobacco black market in Washington state.
High taxes create a black market
Bugs, features, what difference, at this point, does it make?
Also known to have snuffed hallucinogens
First time they've approved a new product since 2009, when they were granted regulatory authority
Results of a new clinical trial
But would still be available in convenience stores
Try vodka next and see what happens
Will be treated the same as regular cigarettes, despite clear differences
Because people just don't know
Because discouraging a safer alternative to smokes is brilliant
More than 60 percent of all cigarettes sold in New York are smuggled
Limits to nanny authority even in one of the nanniest states in the country
Cigarette sales going down, taxes on them going up
Forget that pre-K isn't so effective, or that cigarettes are already highly taxed
Apparently there are some folks left who don't know it's bad
Bloomberg and his confederates have effectively nudged thousands of smokers and shopkeepers into criminal behavior.
Black markets are logical, politicians are not
Famous for turning position of surgeon general into a pulpit for lecturing about health
As well as advertisements for cigarettes and even pubic displays
Would classify them in such a way as to require a doctor's prescription to purchase
Taxes created an entrepreneurial opportunity
County attorney says it's legal, though it can't actually force them to quit
Aims to remind smokers what they already know
Ruling requires additional health warnings
Public health "science"