{"id":165,"date":"2014-08-01T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tobaccofixtures-cigarettedisplays.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2015-08-11T16:44:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T20:44:20","slug":"new-tobacco-and-e-cig-laws-that-affect-retailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tobaccofixtures-cigarettedisplays.com\/blog\/new-tobacco-and-e-cig-laws-that-affect-retailers\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW TOBACCO AND E-CIG LAWS THAT AFFECT RETAILERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><span style=\"color: #289dcc;\"><strong>This year (2014) has been a busy year for state legislators with regard to tobacco legislation.<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>25 state legislatures considered cigarette and\/or tobacco tax-rate increases.<\/li>\n<li>16 states debated bills to assess a tax on e-cigarettes.<\/li>\n<li>14 states deliberated bills to restrict the use of e-cigarettes\/vaping in public places.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even so, few tobacco and e-cigarette bills have actually been passed and enacted into law.<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #3796cb;\"><strong>Tobacco Legislation for 2014 and how it effects you:<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<p><strong>Cigarette and\/or Tobacco Tax Increases<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tax increases on cigarettes and\/or tobacco products failed to pass in Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>Vermont has successfully enacted a tax increase on cigarettes\/little cigars and smokeless tobacco. The law went into effect July 1, 2014. The tax includes a 13 cents per pack increase on cigarettes\/little cigars raising the rate to $2.75 per pack. The new law also raises the excise tax rate on moist snuff to $2.29 per ounce, or $2.75 per 1.2 oz. tin. It also changes the tax rate on other smokeless-tobacco products to the greater of $2.29 per ounce or, if the package contains less than 1.2 ounces, $2.75 per package.<\/p>\n<p><strong>E-Cigarette Tax Proposals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bills to assess a new tax on e-cigarettes failed to pass in Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina has successfully enacted a tax on nicotine in a solution used for electronic-vapor products. The tax is applied at a rate of 5 cents per fluid milliliter of consumable nicotine solution product.<\/p>\n<p>The following is a list of state with legislatures still in session this year (as of 8\/1\/2014) with bills still pending:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>California (a proposed $2.00 per pack cigarette tax increase)<\/li>\n<li>Massachusetts (a proposed bill to increase the tax on other tobacco products to 45% designated for a revenue study)<\/li>\n<li>Michigan (a proposed bill to tax moist snuff at 53 cents per ounce as opposed to the current 32% tax rate)<\/li>\n<li>Michigan (a proposed tax of 15 cents per 1.5 milliliters on the nicotine solution in vapor products including electronic cigarettes)<\/li>\n<li>New York (a proposed $1.65-per-pack cigarette tax increase)<\/li>\n<li>New York (a proposed 75% tobacco products excise tax on e-cigarettes)<\/li>\n<li>Ohio (a proposed 60 cents per pack cigarette tax increase over two years and 49% tax on other tobacco products over two years)<\/li>\n<li>Ohio (a proposal to assess the $1.85-per-pack cigarette tax on e-cigarettes)<\/li>\n<li>Pennsylvania (a proposed bill to allow the City of Philadelphia to assess a $2.00-per-pack cigarette tax to fund the Philadelphia Public School District).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Public Restrictions on E-Cigarette Use\/Vaping<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bills to restrict the use of electronic cigarettes in public places failed to pass in Alaska, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, Oregon, South Carolina and Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota succeeded in enacting a law prohibiting the use of e-cigarettes in government-owned buildings and schools.<\/p>\n<p>The following is a list of state with legislatures still in session this year (as of 8\/1\/2014) with e-cigarette\/vaping-use bills still pending are California, Delaware, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on tobacco law and FDA rules for retailers please visit the FDA&#8217;s website:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/TobaccoProducts\/ResourcesforYou\/Retail\/ucm220111.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FDA Tobacco Compliance Webinars<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did you know\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thecstoreestore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheCstoreEstore.com<\/a><\/strong> has the\u00a0largest selection of tobacco fixtures and cigarette racks! They also offer the Highest Quality Fixtures, the Fastest Lead Times and the Lowest Freight Cost of ALL competitors!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixtures and displays for ALL type of tobacco merchandising.<\/li>\n<li>Fixtures to fit every budget.<\/li>\n<li>Shop and buy fixtures at your convenience 24\/7\/365.<\/li>\n<li>Quotes on custom tobacco fixtures immediately by phone.<\/li>\n<li>Monthly Specials and Discounts on every product!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more info and pricing on our full selection of tobacco fixtures and cigarette displays for sale please visit us or contact us at:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thecstoreestore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheCstoreEstore.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h6><strong>(866) 630-2100<\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6><strong>sales@cademanenterprises.com<\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year (2014) has been a busy year for state legislators with regard to tobacco legislation. 25 state legislatures considered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"video_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3,130,70,10,133,2,131,132,134],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tobacco-law","tag-cigarette-displays","tag-cigarette-tax","tag-e-cig","tag-e-cigarette","tag-legislation","tag-tobacco-fixtures","tag-tobacco-law","tag-tobacco-news","tag-tobacco-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tobaccofixtures-cigarettedisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tobaccofixtures-cigarettedisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tobaccofixtures-cigarettedisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tobaccofixtures-cigarettedisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tobaccofixtures-cigarettedisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.tobaccofixtures-cigarettedisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"http:\/\/www.tobaccofixtures-cigarettedisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tobaccofixtures-cigarettedisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tobaccofixtures-cigarettedisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tobaccofixtures-cigarettedisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tobaccofixtures-cigarettedisplays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}