NYC raises age limit for tobacco purchase

[Commander Keen]

I just quit smoking a couple of weeks ago.

Congratulations!

 

[BikerHT]

Thanks!


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[Profreedomokie]

I wish they would have an I.Q. limit for voters. That may have kept us from the mess we're in.

 

[Boehlertaught]

Old enough at 18 to write a blank check payable with your life to the federal government, but, not old enough to smoke/dip/chew tobacco.

My, we're certainly moving towards the progressives plan for utopia.

This argument got folks 18 years old the opportunity to buy beer during Vietnam.

 

[FamousAJ]

I just quit smoking a couple of weeks ago. Prior, I would buy OK made Echo brand for $32/carton in Chandler. Working in Chicago area, didn't have a pack with me one day and stopped at a store in Illinois - they wanted $11.90 for a pack! Went down the road into Indiana and they were $6.05! I waited til I got back to my RV where my Okie smokes were.

Chicago is currently talking about adding another $.75 per pack tax on them. Chicago is jacked up in so many ways!


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and the latest from Chicago...

Chicago may soon take a first step toward becoming the first major U.S. city to regulate the sale of e-cigarettes.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports Mayor Rahm Emanuel is joining forces with two powerful alderman -- Will Burns (4th) and Ed Burke (14th) -- to push for e-cigarettes in Chicago to be regulated as "tobacco products" and subject to the same restrictions as are outlined in the city's existing smoking ban.

Specifically, that means they would be banned for minors and would also not be allowed to be smoked wherever traditional cigarettes are already banned.

This move would make Chicago the first major city to essentially ban e-cigarettes from being smoked in most public places, WGN reports.

The proposal, as well as a companion ordinance banning the sale of flavored tobacco products within 500 feet of a school, will be introduced in the City Council on Tuesday.

Beginning on Jan. 1, Illinois law will specifically ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors under a bill signed by Gov. Pat Quinn in August, according to the Associated Press.

E-cigarettes -- which are battery-operated -- were expected to bring in $1.7 billion in U.S. sales this year and are growing in popularity amid criticism that their flavors -- such as cherry, strawberry and cookie and cream milkshake -- are targeted to young smokers.

 

[BikerHT]

The goofy mayor Rahm now is offering a compromise and only increase the tax per pack of smokes in Illinois to $.50 instead of $.75 - bringing the grand total of TAX PER PACK to $7.17! Indiana tax is $.99/pack and some are worried that the business will just go across the line to buy their smokes! Really? They are doing that now for everything - gas, smokes, guns, boolits...

 

[TedKennedy]

I wish they would have an I.Q. limit for voters. That may have kept us from the mess we're in.

They used to have some testing required.....

 

[FamousAJ]

and now e-cigs are planned on being banned as well.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/20/n...rs-and-to-curb-e-cigarette-smoking.html?_r=1&