{"id":1837613,"date":"2023-02-07T05:06:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T10:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1837613"},"modified":"2023-02-07T05:09:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T10:09:22","slug":"up-in-smoke-black-activists-slam-kathy-hochul-for-proposed-menthol-cigarette-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/up-in-smoke-black-activists-slam-kathy-hochul-for-proposed-menthol-cigarette-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Up in Smoke: Black Activists Slam Kathy Hochul for Proposed Menthol Cigarette Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fup-in-smoke-black-activists-slam-kathy-hochul-for-proposed-menthol-cigarette-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1837613&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re going to be the black person who took Newport cigarettes from Africans.&#8221; You would not be reelected.    N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul (Getty Images).    <\/p>\n<p>Black activists are criticizing Kathy Hochul (D.), New York Governor, for her decision to ban flavored tobacco products and allow rampant access to marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You\u2019re telling me that my 21-year-old son can buy all the cannabis he wants, but my grandmother who\u2019s been smoking for 65 years can\u2019t get a cigarette? It doesn\u2019t make sense,&#8221; said Corey Pegues, a retired black New York Police Department executive who is urging lawmakers to reject Hochul\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Pegues said the governor\u2019s proposed legislation, which was tucked in her Jan. 10 State of the State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-01\/2023SOTSBook.pdf\">Plan<\/a>It will adversely affect black voters. Critics say the proposal came as a shock to outside experts who would have warned about the policy\u2019s racial bias.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul is the latest Democrat who has angered black activists by banning flavored tobacco. Eighty-five per cent of black smokers smoke menthol cigarettes, while only 30 percent use it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tobacco\/basic_information\/menthol\/related-health-disparities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According<\/a> According to the CDC. Experts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/michael-bloomberg-anti-tobacco-white-house-policy-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beware<\/a> that the Biden administration\u2019s 2022 proposal to ban flavored tobacco products would be a boon for criminal cartels who would become the only source for menthol smokers to get their fix. Critics of Hochul\u2019s proposal echoed those claims, noting that increased crime in black neighborhoods could further exacerbate tension with the police.<\/p>\n<p>TheActivists said <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> Hochul could lose the support of her community if she gets her way. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/13\/support-from-black-voters-lifted-hochul-over-zeldin-for-gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Important<\/a> She was able to win her first term in 2022 thanks to her voting bloc.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hochul didn&#8217;t run on this. She would have been defeated. Black people wouldn\u2019t have voted for her,&#8221; Pegues said. &#8220;Whoever passes this ban is going to be the boogeyman. Think about this. You are going to be the person that took Newport cigarettes from black people. You would never get reelected again, I promise you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Harris, chairman, stated that Hochul is being looked after by the Law Enforcement Action Partnership. &#8220;specifically targeting people of color&#8221; Her proposed ban. Hochul claimed that her policy, if it is approved by the New York State Legislature will prevent 22,000 youths turning to adult smoking.<\/p>\n<p>Harris said that flavored cigarettes were no more addictive than their natural counterparts, and asked the governor why he doesn&#8217;t seem to be interested in banning tobacco products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black activists are slamming New York governor Kathy Hochul (D.) for moving to ban flavored tobacco products while allowing rampant access to flavored marijuana.<br \/>\nThe post Up in Smoke: Black Activists Slam Kathy Hochul for Proposed Menthol Cigarette Ban appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":1714032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4091,7008,4212,17854,8433,11845,17853,4487,4447,15232],"class_list":["post-1837613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-activists","tag-ban","tag-black","tag-cigarette","tag-hochul","tag-kathy","tag-menthol","tag-proposed","tag-slam","tag-smoke"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}