{"id":1858067,"date":"2026-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1858067"},"modified":"2026-04-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:00:00","slug":"new-yorks-governor-seems-indifferent-to-the-health-consequences-of-a-steep-tax-on-nicotine-worldnews-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1858067","title":{"rendered":"New York&#8217;s Governor Seems Indifferent to the Health Consequences of a Steep Tax on Nicotine &#8230; &#8211; Worldnews.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"main-article mB40\">\n<div id=\"article-url\">\n<p class=\"art-text\"><span dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">By pushing a 75% wholesale tax on nicotine pouches, New York State Budget Director Blake Washington says, Gov. Kathy Hochul is trying to address <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote\">&#8220;<i>a public health concern.<\/i>&#8220;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> That rationale is absurd on its face, since this tax would sharply raise the cost of a nicotine product that is far less hazardous than cigarettes, perversely<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/article.wn.com\/view\/2026\/04\/01\/New_Yorks_Governor_Seems_Indifferent_to_the_Health_Consequen\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;] By pushing a 75% wholesale tax on nicotine pouches, New York State Budget Director Blake Washington says, Gov. Kathy Hochul is trying to address &#8220;a public health concern.&#8220; That rationale is absurd on its face, since this tax would sharply raise the cost of a nicotine product that is far less hazardous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[65,226],"class_list":["post-1858067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-consequence-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1858067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1858067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1858067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1858067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}