{"id":23375,"date":"2020-11-24T16:50:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T21:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=23375"},"modified":"2020-11-24T16:50:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T21:50:56","slug":"vaping-news-new-hampshire-flavor-bans-pandemic-increasing-tobacco-sales-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/23375","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: NEW HAMPSHIRE [Flavor Bans &amp; Pandemic Increasing Tobacco Sales Revenue]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"f9q9j-0-0\">&#8220;Ziad Jabri has always seen a steady stream of customers from Massachusetts. But this year, it\u2019s gone through the roof. <span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong>The big driver for that growth Massachusetts&#8217; ban last year on flavored tobacco and flavored vapes<\/strong><\/span>. While the pandemic has taken its toll on some of many sources of government revenue, the state&#8217;s tobacco tax collections are surging right. It\u2019s not just the Massachusetts ban that\u2019s driving up sales in New Hampshire. Experts say the pandemic\u2019s impact on daily life also appears to be spurring growth in tobacco use. While heavier smoking rates are bad for public health in the long run, in the short run the state is benefiting from higher tax collections. Data from New Hampshire&#8217;s Department of Revenue show that between January and October of this year, the state collected $33 million more in tobacco taxes than during the same period last year &#8211; a 19 percent jump. \u201cThis is a trend we\u2019ve been seeing across the country,&#8221; Lindsey Stepp, the department\u2019s commissioner said. &#8220;States are seeing increases, or at least not decreases, in tobacco revenue since the pandemic began.\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhpr.org\/post\/nh-tobacco-revenue-surges-amid-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">N.H. Tobacco Revenue Surges Amid Pandemic<\/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%20NEW%20HAMPSHIRE%20%5BFlavor%20Bans%20%26amp%3B%20Pandemic%20Increasing%20Tobacco%20Sales%20Revenue%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;Ziad Jabri has always seen a steady stream of customers from Massachusetts. But this year, it\u2019s gone through the roof. The big driver for that&#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-23375","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\/23375","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=23375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23377,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23375\/revisions\/23377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}