IT’S OFFICIAL: The Massachusetts’ ban on the sale of flavored tobacco is a failed policy. The state has lost more than $140 million on menthol cigarettes alone, the regulated and […]
Flavored Tobacco
Posted inOpinion
FDA must ban menthol cigarettes this time
AT THE END of April, the Food and Drug Administration announced it would move toward banning menthol flavored cigarettes and all flavored cigars. While encouraged by the announcement, we must […]
Posted inOpinion
Put the menthol cigarette ban on hold
WHEN THE 2020 CALENDAR flips to June, thousands of small businesses in will be brought to their knees when the Commonwealth will send over $230 million in desperately needed tax […]
Posted inState House News Service, Uncategorized
Say goodbye to flavored tobacco products
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE MASSACHUSETTS ON WEDNESDAY became the first state in the country to prohibit retail sales of all flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes. Gov. Charlie Baker also […]
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Opponents fume over Baker vaping ban
FOR SAFIA JAMIL, the owner of vaping shops in Marlborough and Walpole, the one-two punch of Gov. Charlie Baker’s emergency vaping ban and legislation passed this week to ban all […]