Flavored Tobacco

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to increase the taxes on cigarettes from $4.35 to $5.35 per pack remains in the bill. Hochul’s budget did not call for any changes to the tax rate for cigars.

The town of just over 5,000 residents becomes the fifth city in Maine to pass such a ban.

The bill would ban all flavored tobacco and vaping products, with no exceptions. Interestingly, it would also make it illegal to gift someone in Texas a flavored cigar.

Given previous statements from FDA, if the agency follows through with this timeline, flavored cigars and menthol cigarettes could be illegal by the end of 2024. That would assume no lawsuits challenging the proposed regulations, an almost certainty.

Exactly 1,000 days after a lawsuit was first filed, R.J. Reynolds’ attempt to stop Los Angeles County’s ban on flavored tobacco sales has come to an end.

Fresh off Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a statewide preemption ban on laws like this, the Cleveland City Council is considering banning the sale of all flavored tobacco products except for some hookah tobacco sales.

In addition to the nearly $4 billion in lost retail sales, governments around the country would lose a combined $750 million in tax revenue.

Rep. Carolyn Jackson, D-Hammond, has once again proposed a bill that would ban the sale of flavored tobacco and nicotine products in Indiana. Jackson recently introduced…

Just weeks after California’s flavored tobacco ban went into effect, it’s neighbor to the north will consider a ban of its own during the upcoming legislative session.

If passed, New Mexico would become the third state with a ban on flavored tobacco sales.

It’s unclear whether Gov. Hochul also wants to increase the taxes on cigars.