A work around flavored tobacco bans, The Native Americans...
Mar 28, 2020 21:09:37 GMT -5
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Post by trailboss on Mar 28, 2020 21:09:37 GMT -5
Ride to the rescue?
buffalonews.com/2020/03/12/a-ban-on-tobacco-flavors-would-drive-users-to-native-american-outlets/
Obviously written by a bedwetter:
buffalonews.com/2020/03/12/a-ban-on-tobacco-flavors-would-drive-users-to-native-american-outlets/
Native American enterprises already attract 55% to 70% of the region’s non-Indian users of tobacco, flocking there to avoid New York’s exorbitant tobacco tax rates – $43.50 on a carton of cigarettes alone. State law and a unanimous Supreme Court decision notwithstanding, the tribes refuse to collect any such taxes, making their prices irresistibly lower.
The Buffalo News supports a policy that would chase the remaining 30% to 45% of Western New York’s flavored tobacco users into the waiting arms of these unlicensed, unregulated, untaxed outlets. They would still offer a wide assortment of menthol cigarettes, cherry pipe tobacco, flavored cigars and wintergreen moist snuff – ignoring the flavor ban just as they ignore every other New York State tobacco retailing restriction.
The Buffalo News supports a policy that would chase the remaining 30% to 45% of Western New York’s flavored tobacco users into the waiting arms of these unlicensed, unregulated, untaxed outlets. They would still offer a wide assortment of menthol cigarettes, cherry pipe tobacco, flavored cigars and wintergreen moist snuff – ignoring the flavor ban just as they ignore every other New York State tobacco retailing restriction.
In the process, it would drive away millions of dollars in state and local tax revenue, defeat the public health objective of the policy, and destroy licensed, law-abiding convenience stores that are monitored by local health departments to ensure prevention of underage sales. You mentioned a bad tradeoff?
