{"id":22900,"date":"2020-10-16T16:38:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T20:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=22900"},"modified":"2020-10-16T16:38:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T20:38:54","slug":"vaping-news-colorado-proposition-ee-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/22900","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: COLORADO [Proposition EE Lawsuit]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"kiof-0-0\">&#8220;Three discount cigarette makers sued Colorado in U.S. District Court this week, claiming a ballot measure raising the state\u2019s tobacco taxes gives their larger competitors an unfair advantage by setting a minimum price on all brands, and that the provision was created in a \u201cbackroom deal\u201d with the country\u2019s largest cigarette maker. The ballot measure, known as Proposition EE, would increase taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products and <span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong>add a new tax on vaping supplies<\/strong><\/span>, which are not subject to tobacco taxes under current state law. <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"kiof-1-0\">The<\/span><span data-offset-key=\"kiof-2-0\"> lawsuit was filed almost a week after Colorado ballots were mailed on Oct. 9 and after more than 300,000 residents have cast their votes.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/10\/16\/discount-cigarette-companies-sue-colorado-over-tobacco-tax-ballot-measure-allege-backroom-deal-with-philip-morris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Discount cigarette companies sue Colorado over tobacco tax ballot measure, allege \u201cbackroom deal\u201d with Philip Morris<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"VAPING%20NEWS%3A%20COLORADO%20%5BProposition%20EE%20Lawsuit%5D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Three discount cigarette makers sued Colorado in U.S. District Court this week, claiming a ballot measure raising the state\u2019s tobacco taxes gives their larger competitors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent_news","category-vaping-news","wpcat-15-id","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22901,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22900\/revisions\/22901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}