Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to propose increasing the city cigarette tax by 75 cents to help plug a budget gap and provide more free vision care for low-income ChicagoPublic Schools students, a City Hall source said Saturday. The increase would leave Chicago with the nation’s highest total cigarette taxes. The administration expects to collect an additional […]
BY FRANCINE KNOWLES Staff Reporter If you light up, prepare to get burned with higher premiums when buying insurance in the new health insurance marketplaces. Under rules of the Affordable Care Act, in Illinois and most other states, insurers can charge smokers and other tobacco users as much as 50 percent more on their premiums […]
By RICHARD SATRAN U.S. sales of electronic cigarettes are expected to jump past $1 billion this year, and where there’s growth like that you can bet someone is making money – whether it’ll be new companies or Big Tobacco remains to be seen. While still a tiny fraction of total tobacco sales, the market is already […]
DR. THECKEDATH MATHEW BRIGHTON, Senior interventional cardiologist, Rochester Heart Institute E-cigarettes are real nicotine products, camouflaged in heat and vapor, carrying all the ill effects that nicotine could do on the cardiovascular system. Nicotine is a vasoconstrictor agent that produces spasm on the blood vessels, including the coronary arteries and the vessels in the brain, leading to […]
By Kevin Keenan In a recent online blog post by Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, it was clearly explained why e-cigarettes should soon be regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The CDC recently reported that rates of electronic cigarette use among U.S. youths more than doubled from 2011 to 2012, when 10 percent […]
By ALEX GREIG Marijuana smokers are using battery-powered e-cigarettes to smoke marijuana. E-cigarettes are being touted by manufacturers as a healthier alternative to traditional cigarettes, but officials believe creative smokers are using the the devices to smoke marijuana undetected. Cannabis, in liquid or wax forms, doesn’t emit the pungent odor that marijuana smoked in plant-form does, […]
Opponents of Minnesota’s new tobacco tax seem to believe the $2.83 per pack of cigarettes tax is about only revenue and business. It’s not. It’s first and foremost about public health. While the tax has had expected impacts on revenue and business since it went into effect July 1, its primary purpose is to discourage […]
by Stephanie Zepelin BOISE — It might be a trend you have noticed: electronic cigarettes. The devices use battery power to heat a liquid (usually containing nicotine) the user inhales. Some folks are choosing this option over traditional cigarettes. Electronicstix, a company that started in Utah, just opened their first store in Boise. “We have […]
Duluth News Tribune Editorial Three weeks ago today, Duluth made headlines across the state, becoming the first city in Minnesota to ban e-cigarettes indoors where tobacco use already is forbidden, among other restrictions and regulations. Then, last week, Hermantown made news by passing a moratorium on the sale and use of electronic cigarettes inside public […]
By Sophie Novack An advertisement for Blu electronic cigarettes shows a glitzed-up, scantily clad Jenny McCarthy seated in a club, smoking—or “vaping”—a sleek black tube with a blue glow at the tip. “Blu satisfies me,” she says, as the camera pans out to show her chatting with an attractive male suitor who is also holding an […]