The extension ensures passage of the full budget — which is already late and will clock in at least $277 billion — will wait until at least after Easter Sunday.
including menthol cigarettes, and allow SUNY and CUNY schools to increase tuition — proposals that Democratic lawmakers have resisted.
On Monday, environmentalists held a news conference to urge the Legislature to reject a last-minute attempt to sneak a measure in the budget that would redefine how the state counts natural-gas emissions. Last Friday, Dr. James McDonald, the acting state health commissioner, rallied with anti-tobacco advocates to push Hochul’s plan to ban menthols.
“It’s designed purposely to cool the harshness of smoking,” Dr. McDonald said of menthols. “It's even advertised about the coolness of it. It's designed to cool this experience you have when you're smoking. It really is the tobacco industry's spoonful of sugar not to help the medicine go down, but to help facilitate our kids become addicted to nicotine.”
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