New York On Track to BAN All Tobacco Sales

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has discreetly started a plan to popularize the idea of banning tobacco sales in New York.

Under Hochul’s watch, the New York State Health Department has launched several surveys that ask the general public what they think about tobacco being banned in New York.

One questioned the survey asked was “What is your opinion about a policy that would end the sale of all tobacco products in New York within 10 years?”

The move by Hochul comes months after New York legalized Marijuana.

New York’s Governor Kathy Hochul has been “test-marketing” a ban on the sale of tobacco in NY. What’s your opinion?
⁦@GovKathyHochul⁩#KathyHochul #tobacco #prohibition #NewYork #NYS https://t.co/VWnyqYFy0q

— Larry Sharpe (@LarrySharpe) April 22, 2023

Check out what the New York Post reported:

The pro-legal weed Hochul administration is quietly trying to fire up support for a complete ban on the sale of tobacco products in New York, The Post has learned.

The state Health Department commissioned a new survey aimed at gauging support for an all-out prohibition — despite Gov. Hochul’s failure to secure support from state legislators to include a ban on menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products in the yet-to-be-approved state budget.

“What is your opinion about a policy that would end the sale of all tobacco products in New York within 10 years?” were among the questions asked last week in the “New York Local Opinion Leaders Survey,” examined by the Post.

Another asks: “What is your opinion about a policy that would ban the sale of all tobacco products to those born after a certain date? For example, those born after the year 2010 or later would never be sold tobacco.”

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul ‘test-marketing’ a ban on all tobacco sales https://t.co/NvLVMeVPqA pic.twitter.com/1brRpzrVBt

— New York Post (@nypost) April 22, 2023

Here’s what the Washington Examiner reported:

New York’s Health Department has reportedly commissioned a new “New York Local Opinion Leaders Survey” aimed at testing support for an all-out ban on the sale of tobacco products in the state.

“What is your opinion about a policy that would end the sale of all tobacco products in New York within 10 years?” the survey asks.

“What is your opinion about a policy that would ban the sale of all tobacco products to those born after a certain date? For example, those born after the year 2010 or later would never be sold tobacco,” another question on the survey asks.

The nonprofit research organization RTI International is conducting the commissioned survey which is being distributed to “community leaders” statewide.

New York has legal state funded heroin injection sites, but are instead banning tobacco.

The first supervised illegal drug injection site opens in New York City. Totally legal and government funded. Eating a cheeseburger in public without papers, not gonna allow it!🙄🙄🙄 https://t.co/WS8uBnHb4I

— DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 (@1Nicdar) December 21, 2021