Posted on 07/02/2019 2:12:43 AM PDT by Libloather
A 92% tax on e-cigarettes went into effect in Vermont Monday as part of an effort to curb youth vaping in the Green Mountain State.
State Rep. George Till, who sponsored the tax increase bill, said the measure will help keep tobacco products out of the hands of kids, who are most affected by price hikes.
"We know the group that is most sensitive to price is teenager," he told CBS MoneyWatch. "And we know that these companies are going out of their way to get kids addicted."
The new tax, which passed in February, will not effect packs of cigarettes, which will still be subject to a $3.08 tax. E-cigarettes and other tobacco-substitute products, including those "intended for human consumption by smoking, chewing, or in any other manner," were previously subject to the state's standard 6% sales tax.
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Higher taxes for better health. Got it.
Yeah, but... Won't it adversely affect the poor and minorities too?
All this will do is make them drive to a nearby state to buy juice.
I predict vapor stores to open just across every border.
I sense a large black market forming...
Stick with marijuana, it’s safe, legal and government endorsed!
We here in New Hampshire applaud Vermont on their brave decision to increase these taxes.
Our NH tax free state line stores are standing ready to help out the Vermont citizens with cheap low cost e-cigarettes and other vap ware.
It’s for the kids dontcha know.
If it will save just one child...........
What about the people that use e-cigs to quit combustible cigs. Will it be cheaper to keep smoking combustibles? Lib mentality.
ALL liberal ideas are stupid AF.
State legislators never seem to own a map.
There are no minorities in Vermont...
Back when cigarettes went to $4 a pack, I started making my own. They sold filtered tubes, bulk cigarette tobacco and the machines to stuff the tubes. That put the price at less than a buck a pack. There were some nice Turkish blends too. Those were kind of strong but good on occasion.
Then Obama put his 150% tax on bulk cigarette tobacco. First the imported stuff went away and then the domestic. He didn’t tax pipe tobacco for some reason so now everyone sells cigarette tobacco as pipe tobacco. The difference is the coarseness of the cut.
So now, those of us who smoke cigarettes and don’t want to pay $5-6 a pack deal with chunks and fussiness when making smokes. We lose a few tubes here and there. They don’t make any nice blends. It’s all just whatever’s cheapest to grow I guess. Oh and when all premade cigarettes went to being ‘fire safe’, the taste changed. I can’t stand a premade cig. They taste like chemicals to me.
Definitely a tax on the poor. There were no well to do people stuffing their own cigarettes.
Gee, don’t they sell vaping stuff online?
Women and minorities hardest hit again? 😁
Smoking is one of the dumbest things you can do to your body.
Vermont politicians, they care
Vermont politicians, they care
Good news for the surrounding state’s sales. The neighboring states of Kansas thank them for having such a high frickin cost of tagging vehicles.
What about the people that use e-cigs to quit combustible cigs. Will it be cheaper to keep smoking combustibles? Lib mentality.
You know people, government, doesn’t realize that kids will always find a way. Especially high school kids. Kids can always get liquor, beer, cigarettes, e-juice, porn, coke, MJ, you name it and a high school kid can get it.
The only way to stop kids is not by government. But by good parenting.
After living and working in Japan for 10 years, I cannot recall seeing kids smoke or drink despite the fact that on every other street corner there is a vending machine for cigarettes, and another one for beer.
Take a look at Vermont’s budget, then look at the number of rich bugging out of Vermont.
Vermont is desperate for money.
Not even if the promise to only vape pot?
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