CALL TO ACTION! *UPDATED 5/22/13* New York Bill to Impose 95% Tax on E-Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco -- A.B. 7106

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Saint57

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NY has to be the biggest police state and tax state. If you think New York State is bad, NYC is far worse; Bloomberg is on a mission to eliminate anything and everything that's the slightest bit unhealthy. His intentions are good, but gov't has no right regulating what he wants to - limiting sizes of soda cups, etc. His latest were/are noise limits in headphones and banning smoking in apartment buildings. So if you own your NYC apartment, you can't smoke in it. Seriously? Telling people what they can and can't do in their own homes that they pay for themselves?

Somehow, NY will figure out how to tax intercourse. I've gotta get out of this state.

Bingo. When people realize that government is not the answer but rather the problem, we might get somewhere.
 

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And yet the weird thing is that Bloomberg is pro e-cigarettes.

That's actually quite shocking to hear. Not doubting you at all, but where'd you hear/read this?

I genuinely think the guy's well intentioned. But he's on this crusade that totally infringes on people's rights. The government's role is supposed to be to inform the public of harm, not ban anything they don't like. I agree with public health groups/branches of gov't taking a very active role in trying to reduce tobacco and alcohol use, but banning these things in your own home is beyond absurd. There's no law stating how big a serving glass of an alcoholic beverage must be and how many can be consumed, but somehow soda gets regulated?

I'd say the amount of time a TV can be on per day in households with children would be his next attempted legislation, but he needs people to watch him at any given moment on TV, and the media would easily get him thrown out of office immediately. So I guess TV's safe.

I don't question the motives, I hate the methods.
 

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I genuinely think the guy's well intentioned. But he's on this crusade that totally infringes on people's rights.


Bloomberg is a textbook narcissistic sociopath. He is not well-intentioned toward anyone but himself. His only concern is getting his way and having power over other people.

Anyone who says differently is either in denial, delusional, or on his payroll.

The people of NYC need to seriously consider bringing back the pillory as a viable way to deal with out-of-control "government officials"...
 

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That's actually quite shocking to hear. Not doubting you at all, but where'd you hear/read this?

I genuinely think the guy's well intentioned. But he's on this crusade that totally infringes on people's rights. The government's role is supposed to be to inform the public of harm, not ban anything they don't like. I agree with public health groups/branches of gov't taking a very active role in trying to reduce tobacco and alcohol use, but banning these things in your own home is beyond absurd. There's no law stating how big a serving glass of an alcoholic beverage must be and how many can be consumed, but somehow soda gets regulated?

I'd say the amount of time a TV can be on per day in households with children would be his next attempted legislation, but he needs people to watch him at any given moment on TV, and the media would easily get him thrown out of office immediately. So I guess TV's safe.

I don't question the motives, I hate the methods.
It was a piece in New York Magazine last year where they listed places you could vape. In the Mayor's office was one of them.
 

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I did show up for this, but there was potentially a strip search to get in the building. Umm sorry, no.

Whaaat?? Wow if that isn't a blatant attempt to get people to just shut up and walk sway, I don't know what is. A STRIP SEARCH? Unreal.

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Whaaat?? Wow if that isn't a blatant attempt to get people to just shut up and walk sway, I don't know what is. A STRIP SEARCH? Unreal.

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That's exactly what they want. Cuomo recently told sheriffs to stop opposing his SAFE Act or he would remove them from office. Disallowing NYers to have any freedoms, including freedom of speech, seems to be a reoccurring theme.
 

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UPDATE: 5/22/13

A hearing on A.B. 7106 was held on May 22, 2013 before the Assembly Health Committee. CASAA has received word that A.B. 7106 was not brought up for a vote. However, the committee chairman is free to bring the bill back up at a later date with minimal notice.

Continued vigilance is needed to ensure that A.B. 7106 does not become law. Please continue to mobilize New York vapers to respond to the below Call to Action. If you are in New York and could possibly attend a future meeting of the Assembly Health Committee in Albany, please e-mail us at board@casaa.org.

If this bill does pass the Health Committee, this battle is far from over. In 2010 and 2011, the Health Committee voted to ban sales of electronic cigarettes to adults. Neither became law, and that was thanks in part to the hundreds or thousands of comments these legislators received in opposition.
 
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