How Gov. Hochul’s Zyn tax would make it pay to keep smoking

How Gov. Hochul’s Zyn tax would make it pay to keep smoking

Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed extending New York’s 75 percent wholesale tax on tobacco products to include nicotine pouches. For example, a can of Zyn, which currently runs $8 to $11 at a New York City bodega, would likely cost $12 to $15.50 after tax, in some cases more expensive than a legal pack of cigarettes and certainly more expensive than the untaxed cigarettes that litter the city’s black market. The overwhelming evidence shows that nic…