Groups of American Indians from across the state are in New York City to defend their right to sell tax-free cigarettes. A Senate committee was holding a hearing Tuesday regarding confusion in the law over taxes and the tribes. Smoke shops on the state’s reservations now sell hundreds of millions of packs of cigarettes each [...]
Snuffing out cherry-flavored cigarillos and cookie dough laced cigars, the City Council banned the sale of flavored tobacco products Wednesday just weeks after the federal government took flavored cigarettes off of shelves nationwide. Often found behind the counter in glitzy, fluorescent colored wrappers and sometimes near candy, these cigars, chewing tobaccos and cigarettes have been [...]
A federal judge has issued a ruling that could doom an Indian reservation’s booming business in tax-free cigarettes and spell trouble for other native American tobacco dealers in the state. In a decision announced Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon in Brooklyn barred a group of smoke shops on Long Island’s reservation from selling [...]
Smoking would be banned outside hospital entrances and on hospital grounds under a bill being considered by the New York City Council. The measure seeks to ban smoking on hospital property and within 15 feet of any hospital entrance or exit. It would apply to public and private hospitals, as well as residential health care [...]
