Grace Carr on March 11, 2019 An app developer launched a program designed to tell customers which restaurants and business are safe for Trump supporters following a slew of attacks on persons who support President Donald Trump. The app provides “reviews of local restaurant and businesses from a conservative perspective, helping insure you’re safe when you…
Steve Birr A New York City judge presiding over the accused “Brooklyn Ripper’s” murder trial is facing criticism after being spotted sneaking hits from a vaping device on the bench. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Vincent Del Giudice’s nicotine habit is apparently common knowledge in local legal circles. He is known to casually take pulls from his…
By: Steve Birr Another state is mulling a hike to the minimum tobacco purchasing age, relying primarily on the debunked claim that e-cigarettes are a “gateway” to smoking for teens. Officials are using alarmist tactics, pushing misinformation on the effects of vaping, in order to secure a tobacco purchasing age hike in Idaho, that will…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr Leaders in the vaping industry are hopeful President Donald Trump will help slash regulations threatening to put electronic cigarette vendors across the country out of business. E-cigarette manufacturers and vendors faced a brutal year of new rules and regulations from the federal government and localities throughout many…
by Steve Birr Lawmakers in a Pennsylvania county are gearing up for a vote to squash electronic cigarettes and treat the devices like traditional tobacco. The Allegheny County Council will vote as early as Tuesday on new regulations governing vaping. It would ban the devices in any school, workplace, sports stadium, government building, bus, cab or…
by Steve Birr Anti-tobacco advocates are launching an advertisement campaign centered on dead children in support of raising the tobacco tax and applying it to electronic cigarettes in California. A coalition of healthcare and cancer groups are joining together to dump 5,600 toe tags, used for dead bodies in a morgue, from a body bag in front…
by Steve Birr Voters in California will decide on a contentious ballot initiative aimed at regulating the electronic cigarette industry and hiking tobacco taxes. Proposition 56 would raise the tax on tobacco sales, which currently sits at 87 cents, to $2.87. The ballot would also allow the state government to begin taxing e-cigarette sales, which opponents…
by Josh Guckert On Tuesday, Libertarian Gary Johnson‘s campaign became the first to address the topic of vaping. The Johnson Campaign’s national director Jim Wallace released a statement, reading: In the first presidential debate, voters listened to two candidates dance around the American economy. What you’ll never hear from those candidates is how the economy is being…
by Craig Boudreau A new study published in the journal Tobacco Control has shown that teens who vape don’t use nicotine by a 3 to 1 margin, EurekAlert reported Thursday. The study used data compiled by Monitoring The Future, a project designed to assess “behavior of young people,” and surveyed nearly 15,000 students from 12th, 10th and 8th…
Guy Bentley If you’re heading to Europe and looking to escape nannying rules on smoking, drinking, eating and vaping, the Czech Republic is the place for you. The Czech Republic is the freest country in Europe when it comes to choices people can make about what, where and when they consume their favorite vices,…