{"id":24059,"date":"2021-01-28T08:41:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T13:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=24059"},"modified":"2021-01-28T08:41:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T13:41:35","slug":"vaping-news-massachusetts-consequences-of-bans-and-vape-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/24059","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: MASSACHUSETTS [Consequences of Bans and Vape Tax]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"dodn3-0-0\">&#8220;If tax collections are any indication, menthol smokers not only haven\u2019t quit, they\u2019ve skipped across the border to New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York and other states to satisfy their habit, taking other convenience-store related business with them. That\u2019s what a new report from the New England Convenience Store and Energy Marketers Association indicates. That group, which opposed <span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong>the legislation that also placed a 75% excise tax on vaping products<\/strong><\/span>, said the menthol ban has cost Massachusetts more than $62 million in lost tax revenue. Massachusetts collected about $550 million in cigarette excise-tax revenue during fiscal 2019, Boesen said, and lawmakers predict a loss of $93 million in fiscal 2021 revenue due to the flavored-tobacco ban. Meanwhile, New Hampshire has gained more than $28 million in tobacco excise taxes since the ban took effect on June 1. Overall, New Hampshire cigarette sales are up 46%, while in Massachusetts they\u2019re down almost 24%. It didn\u2019t work with a nationwide prohibition on the manufacture and consumption of alcohol, and a century later, Massachusetts has experienced the same result on a far smaller scale.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2021\/01\/28\/menthol-tobacco-prohibition-ban-or-just-band-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Menthol-tobacco prohibition: Ban or just Band-Aid?<\/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%20MASSACHUSETTS%20%5BConsequences%20of%20Bans%20and%20Vape%20Tax%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;If tax collections are any indication, menthol smokers not only haven\u2019t quit, they\u2019ve skipped across the border to New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York and&#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-24059","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\/24059","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=24059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24060,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24059\/revisions\/24060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}