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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.
Cigarette smokers and flavored tobacco scavengers from Massachusetts produced a surge of New Hampshire tobacco tax revenue that almost single-handedly prevented a business tax increase, preliminary, unaudited state figures suggest.
A major study published last year before the nationwide vaping panic has been retracted. The research was pulled by the American Heart Association’s Scientific Journal over concerns that the data was misleading and the conclusions unreliable.
Vaping: the change of role It is difficult to call vape culture a novelty in this world, but still vaping remains quite a popular hobby nowadays. Throughout its history (for the United States this means since about 2006) devices for vaping have undergone a number of modifications and changes in attitude both from the side …
I’ve been harping on Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker for his knee-jerk vaping ban. Virtue signaling that has proven to be an economic win for New Hampshire. It was an overreach in my opinion so what of this? The Trump administration is putting the screws to Vape Juice makers.
Well, not exactly. Kate Frey, vice president of advocacy at New Futures, and Dr. Daniel Philbin, Northern New England Chapter of American College of Cardiology, are members of the New Hampshire-Tobacco 21 Coalition and just wrote an Op-Ed about the dangers of smoking and vaping.
Charlie Baker is a registered Republican in Massachusetts. Even real Republicans know what that means (Democrat) – and Democrats surround him. So the knee-jerk 4-month vaping ban in the Bay State was not surprising. Nor was the massive uptick in sales in New Hampshire.
In what feels like the beginning of a twenty-first-century relapse into the ill-famed days of Prohibition, more and more politicians across the country have flocked to one of the most misguided, counterproductive and reactionary measures in decades.
Massachusetts banned all vaping products last month in a knee-jerk response to a small number of health issues and fatalities related to vaping. Small business owners caught off guard, as well as vape companies, challenged the ban in court.
Aftermarket vaping cartridges have been making people ill. Some have died. Massachusetts responded by banning the sale of vaping products in the State for four months. While some are filing lawsuits and staging protests cross border sales in New Hampshire are up. Way up.
