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

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 …

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Black Market Bloomberg

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 …

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New Hampshire House Votes to Raise Tobacco Taxes

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 …

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

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