What's Ahead?

New York Governor Kathy Holkle wants to raise cigarette taxes and expand the ban on flavored vapes. The Empire State has the country's biggest illegal cigarette market, while more than half of the sales are smuggled in from either other states or from Native American reservations. Research shows that menthol is not the lure some assert to get young people to smoke. Teenage vaping has not been a gateway to tobacco smoking.