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Colorado communities do what state lawmakers wouldn’t: Raise taxes on cigarettes, vaping products
The initiatives, mostly in mountain communities, follow a new state law that allows them to license and tax cigarette sales without penalty
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Big tobacco is fighting Colorado’s nicotine tax bill with powerful lobbyists and a social media campaign
A company tied to cigarette-maker Philip Morris and popular vape brand Juul has spent thousands on social media ads against the tax hike. It’s also hired lobbyists from the high-powered Denver firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
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Colorado is set to ban vaping where smoking is already prohibited, following more than a dozen other states
House Bill 1076 cleared its first committee on Wednesday with support from the medical community and restaurants
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Cigarettes all over again? Colorado has the highest youth vaping rate in the country.
Some Colorado towns got fed up waiting for the state to crack down on youth sales. They're not waiting for history to repeat itself.
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Colorado has the highest per-capita rate of skin cancer, thanks to sunshine and high elevation
Colorado's cancer death rate, though, has declined faster than the rest of the nation