Posted on 04/22/2023 12:57:26 PM PDT by lowbridge
The pro-legal weed Hochul administration is quietly trying to fire up support for a complete ban on the sale of tobacco products in New York, The Post has learned.
The state Health Department commissioned a new survey aimed at gauging support for an all-out prohibition — despite Gov. Hochul’s failure to secure support from state legislators to include a ban on menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products in the yet-to-be-approved state budget.
“What is your opinion about a policy that would end the sale of all tobacco products in New York within 10 years?” were among the questions asked last week in the “New York Local Opinion Leaders Survey,” examined by the Post.
Another asks: “What is your opinion about a policy that would ban the sale of all tobacco products to those born after a certain date? For example, those born after the year 2010 or later would never be sold tobacco.”
The poll also solicited input on whether there’s backing for other tobacco-related measures, including capping the number of retailers who can sell “products in a community” and prohibiting its sales near schools.
The survey, conducted by nonprofit research organization RTI International, was distributed to “community leaders” statewide, including “county legislators and county directors of public health,” according to an April 13 memo to prospective participants from Jennifer Lee, director of the Health Department’s Bureau of Tobacco Control.
It’s obvious the Health Department is “test marketing” potential new smoking policies and such surveys are typically funded by taxpayers but through private companies, think tanks, or political campaigns, an Albany insider said.
“An outright ban being considered … is all new territory,” the insider said. “And I’ve never seen anything like this where [the state] uses this kind of focus grouping, alliance building, momentum building.”
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What a coinkydink!
More people will just go to Indian reservations.
Why is Deep State doing the same thing with tobacco that it's doing with weed: taxing the crap out of it which just encourages more illegality...
Why go to Indian reservations when the mafia will bring it to your front door.
What a great idea.....for the rats, that is to say..
Making cigs illegal will make them more scarce and thereby more expensive.. That means a whole new income for the rats..
Can't you just see "looseys" in the vending machines, like the needles, crack pipes and other rot they have in those machines today.. :)
Why is Deep State in bed with organized crime...
Update from a state that’s pushing weed...
https://www.news10.com/news/cigarette-tax-set-to-rise-1-come-september/
The NY tax base is crumbling and she wants to lose their high taxed tobacco?
Dem idiocy never ceases to amaze.
See my link just above and get a load of this one...
https://www.fingerlakes1.com/2023/08/08/new-york-cannabis-shop-openings-halted-by-court-order/
That’s ridiculous.
I can give you 500 reasons you are wrong...(puff puff)
1. Uh, um ah...what were we talking about?
GO FOR IT, KATHY… START WITH MENTHOL BRANDS! 🤦🏼🤦🏼
Bipolar libs
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