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With the news being dominated by the coronavirus and the re-opening of the state of New York this ban kinda slipped in unnoticed and without much fight or fanfare.

The war on single use plastic continues in New York

Well that’s kind of a huge exclusion criteria for possible employees. Smoke cigarettes and want to work for U-Haul international?  Not happening in 21 states.  Sorry.  It looks like the company has put a ban on hiring nicotine users starting February 1st of this year...

Where is it safe?

New York State is now officially tobacco free and vape free indoors.

Now, mind you this is a Japanese company doing this but the thought is something many have been thinking of for ages. Should this be brought to the Capital Region?

There's a new ban in areas of New York State!...Public indoor areas that is.  As reported by the New York Times, Governor Cuomo just gave his approval on Monday to ban electronic cigarettes in any area where cigarettes are banned.  That's right, anywhere cigarettes are prohibited, so is vaping...

How do you feel about marijuana? How do you feel about parents smoking weed in front of their kids? These moms get together and smoke weed to ease their pain. Are they in the wrong?

It's not just tobacco smokers affected either ... You vape bra?

What would YOUUU do? A group called Whatever, which does videos of pranks, social experiments and randomness, has recently done an experiment that would most likely take you out of your comfort zone if it was done to you. In its video, Jensen, a nine-year-old boy who is holding a cigarette, is going around to random people and asking for a light.

The County Health Ranking website recently released their list of the healthiest to least counties in the state of New York. How did the Capital Region fare?

The subject of raising the minimum smoking age to 21 isn't something new, many states have been tackling the issue including Vermont. The Green Mountain State recently sat down and voted on to raise or keep it at 18.