New York

New York will increase the cost of tobacco products and limit the number of licenses for their sale
Soon in New York it will be not only difficult to find tobacco products on the shelves of stores, but it will become much more expensive to purchase them. The mayor's office and several members of the City Council offer different options for new measures to combat smoking, and this time almost all of them are focused on increasing the price of tobacco products.
The innovators propose to raise the minimum price for cigarettes and other tobacco products, reduce the number of licensed retail outlets for these products, and also prohibit the sale of tobacco in pharmacies. To sell electronic cigarettes retailers will have to obtain a special license, the number of which will be limited. Mayor Bill de Blazio says that he would like the cost of one pack of cigarettes to be between $ 10.50 and $ 13. In this case, the price of cigarettes in New York will be the highest in the country. Although the smoking rate in the city is gradually decreasing, there are still about 900,000 smokers in the Big Apple.