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FDA Limits Nicotine in Cigarettes but Allows Ultra-Processed Foods

January 31, 2025 John Klar

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it will limit nicotine levels in cigarettes to stem addiction and consequent health problems. The formal FDA rule has not been released, yet the implications of this regulatory shift are dizzyingly myriad. Individual liberties, black market diversion, and the odd contrast between food and cigarette labeling and … Read more

Smuggling Boosted NH Revenues By Nearly $1 Billion Over 15 Years

December 4, 2024 Andrew Cline

New Hampshire is the No. 3 state in the country for outbound cigarette smuggling, resulting in a revenue windfall, concludes the latest annual report on interstate cigarette smuggling from the Tax Foundation and Mackinac Center for Public Policy. From 2007-2022, New Hampshire earned $955 million in state revenue from cigarette buyers who then smuggled their purchases to … Read more

Can I Buy Cigarettes Online in Canada? Here Is Everything to Know

February 13, 2023February 13, 2023 Guest Contributor

Over the past few years, smoking cigarettes and using vaping products have been legalized in various parts of the world. This has increased the number of businesses selling cigarettes across the globe.

Mass Flavored Cigarette Ban Continues to Flood NH With New Revenue

January 27, 2021 Steve MacDonald

On June 1st of 2020, the busy-bodies in the Bay State banned menthol-flavored cigarettes. Here in the Granite State, we said thank you. Before summer was over, NH had added over 16 million in new revenue as a result. The latest figures push that to over 28 million in six months.

Dover NH Bans 18-20 Year Olds in Possession of Tobacco from their Plantation

September 26, 2018June 29, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Yesterday Dover, New Hampshire raised the age for buying tobacco products to 21. So, beware to anyone under 21 in possession of tobacco. If you wander onto the Dover plantation, you’ll be breaking the law.

The Garrison City will become the first municipality in the state to raise the age to legally possess, use and purchase tobacco products in Dover to 21 years old.

The City Council voted to approve the ordinance change on a 6-1-2 vote, with Ward 4 Councilor Marcia Gasses voting no, Mayor Karen Weston recusing, and Ward 6 Councilor Matthew Keane absent from the meeting.

Black Market Bloomberg

September 26, 2018April 22, 2013 Steve MacDonald

New York City Mayor Mike ‘Big Gulp’ Bloomberg has proposed raising the smoking age in New York City from 18 to 21 years of age. A companion proposal would hike the price of a pack of cigarettes to more than ten dollars per pack, presumably to a) convince more people to quit and b) recover revenue lost by prohibiting a big chunk of the tax base from paying taxes on cigarettes they are no longer permitted to smoke.

But how does New York’s evil super genius plan to recover the revenue lost to the expansion of the black market?

New Hampshire House Votes to Raise Tobacco Taxes

September 26, 2018March 21, 2013 Steve MacDonald

The ten cent resolution, that one thin (not so thin) dime New Hampshire Republicans cut off the tobacco tax two years ago, expires shortly. At the time it was proposed and passed the left was so insane with outrage that you’d have thought Republicans were selling guns to foreign drug lords across the border who were killing agents of the federal government and innocent civilians as well. But some Democrat president was the one who’d done that so there was no moral call to war; New Hampshire Democrats were as quiet as church mice. (Regular Church mice, the social justice Church mice are noisy sums-o-beeches–and likely protected by a stimulus grant through the EPA.) But that ten cent tax? That was a crime against humanity.

But it was probably doomed from the start.

Tobacco Tax Increase: The Progressives Racism And Class Warfare?

September 26, 2018March 21, 2013 Rick Olson

“Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is not fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.” ? B.R. Ambedkar

I read Steve’s entry this morning on the tobacco tax increase the house progressives just passed. HB 659-FN-A passed 193 to 167 largely right along party lines, bringing along the usual recognizable (and some Freshman) RINO’s. I think anybody that follows house voting behavior is not at all surprised or intrigued because those RINO’s sipping the progressive Kool-Aid ascribe to the notion that somehow fewer kids will smoke as the price of a pack increases. But the fact is, kids do pay taxes. When a 13-year-old

“Oh Crap” Sayeth the NH Left, Tobacco Revenue Over Projection….Again.

September 26, 2018June 6, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Do we look too young to be...smoking? NH Tobacco revenu up again Nothing makes me smile like watching another left wing New Hampshire Democrat narrative go up in smoke. Which narrative, you ask, there are so many to choose from? Why, the one about how irresponsible it was to cut the tobacco tax and how it would never stimulate enough other forms of cross border commerce to make up the difference. A notion that is not just backwards, it runs counter to the entire concept of the New Hampshire advantage.

So right out of the gate, the Democrats had no where to run on this issue–not that they didn’t try–and now things are looking bad for their tobacco tax narrative.