tobacco
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WATCH: This city is the 1st in metro Denver to raise the age to buy tobacco
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Four other Colorado cities have raised the age to buy cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21 — and now a tiny metro-Denver community has done it. WATCH the 9News video above.
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Colorado is falling behind in the fight against tobacco use
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Colorado falls short in implementing policies and passing legislation to reduce death and suffering from cancer. According to the latest edition of “How Do You Measure Up? A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality,” Colorado meets the policy recommendations in just two of the nine key issue areas. The…
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Smoking tax, pot sales: A Colorado muni election roundup
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While the Colorado political world has its mind set on the path to the November election, voters in 120 cities and towns across the state went to the polls Tuesday to decide often-unsexy-but-still-important matters. For example, in the town of Basalt, between Glenwood Springs and Aspen, voters agreed to boost the local tax on cigarettes…
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Smoking, vaping ban considered on Denver’s 16th Street Mall
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One might experience an array of aromas when patronizing Denver’s 16th Street Mall, from appetizing restaurant fare to cigarette and marijuana smoke. City officials are considering changing that with a ban on smoking, and vaping, in the outdoor mall. While Denver already bans smoking tobacco within 25 feet of a building entries (public marijuana use…
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The Hot Sheet – Cops not necessarily citizens, Sen. Gardner has your golden tix, 10 homeless cost you millions, pot and gun rights and MORE …
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VOL. 01 NO. 191 | NOVEMBER 22, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 DENVER – Good Tuesday to you and yours. If it’s a traveling day (“over the river and through the woods …”) for you, we do hope you arrive safely and possibly hungry. As you’ll notice, we are sharing several topics concerning our…
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? Bialick: ‘Big Tobacco’ is blowing smoke
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Big Tobacco knows that if people smoke one less cigarette a day they will lose billions of dollars. So it is no surprise that out of state tobacco companies are spending more than $16 million dollars here (more than the casinos spent keeping racetrack betting in Colorado) to try to defeat Amendment 72 through a…
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Myers: Support Amendment 72 to keep kids from smoking and save lives
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Colorado voters have an exceptional opportunity in November to improve the state’s health and economy by approving Amendment 72 to increase the state tobacco tax by $1.75 per pack. This critical action will prevent children from smoking, prompt smokers to quit and generate much-needed revenue for worthy causes including cancer research and veterans’ services. In…
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Gorman: Amendment 72 is constitutionally guaranteed revenue for state bureaucracies
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Amendment 72 supporters claim that raising tobacco taxes will reduce smoking. That’s a smokescreen. What the amendment really does is create a constitutionally mandated stream of revenue for two state health bureaucracies that seek to shake off the shackles of legislative budgetary oversight. Under Amendment 72, the state tax on a pack of cigarettes will…
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Amendment 72: The flawed fiscal logic behind raising tobacco taxes
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Sure, why not triple the state cigarette tax, as Amendment 72 on the Colorado ballot proposes? It’s no bucks out of my billfold, and look who’s for it: Every goodthink organization you can think of, from the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association and the Alzheimer’s Association of Colorado right…
