The pros and cons of Prop. 310 banning flavored nicotine products in Denver (Letters)
No on Protect small businesses in Denver Re Bloomberg gives M to help save flavored-tobacco ban Oct news story As ballots begin arriving in mailboxes small business owners like me are standing up to a New York billionaire who has poured million into keeping Denver s flavored tobacco ban in place This brings the total to more than million raised to influence the outcome of Referendum funding a wave of misleading ads aimed at confusing voters This measure gives Denver voters the opportunity to restore local control and allow the sale of flavored vape products to adults and older It is not about kids it is already illegal to sell these products to anyone under What s really at stake is fairness for responsible small businesses and whether Denver keeps million a year in local revenue that right now funds critical services like preschool K- and society safety The No on campaign is powered by Colorado-based small business owners who believe that local decisions should be made by local voters not out-of-state billionaires These are family-run stores that have served their communities for years and now find themselves fighting to survive against a massive well-funded campaign that doesn t understand our city or our commercial sector Voting No on protects small businesses saves local jobs and ensures that million stays here in Denver supporting the schools safety and locality services we all rely on This is about standing up for local families local workers and the right for responsible adults to make their own decisions Kristen Hensel Denver Editor s note Hensel owns Rusty s Vape and Smoke Shop Yes on Fight tobacco industry In reference to ballot measure the vaping ban one demands to recognize that the addictive qualities of nicotine are only surpassed by cocaine and heroin So ignore the subterfuge being generated by the tobacco vaping industry The bottom line is that vaped nicotine produces a better revenue profile over time than cigarettes because vaping doesn t kill off its addicts Of discipline the industry wants to get as a large number of people hooked on nicotine as they can Regrettably a great number of people will be paying for this addiction for their entire lives much to the delight of the industry Please vote Yes on to retain the ban on vaping products in Denver Guy Wroble Denver Zoning and the essence of Lakewood Re Housing crunch suburbs paths Oct news story The zoning issue that is engulfing Lakewood is a clash of ideas about what Lakewood should become Various see a change to higher density as necessary to make the city vibrant and affordable while others view density as obliterating the essence of Lakewood that is open space and trees what people moved to Lakewood for With the proposed zoning plan which drastically reduces the sizes of residential lots to as small as square feet the city council is pitting a population that wants to live in Lakewood and buy an affordable home against people who already live there and bought specifically for larger lots Related Articles Denver s Referendum will determine fate of flavored tobacco sales in the city Ballots for November referendum will be mailed to Colorado voters starting Friday Michael Bloomberg gives million to help save Denver s flavored tobacco ban in voting process Aurora readies crackdown on gray domain products like nitrous oxide at vape shops and corner stores A common sight at concerts nitrous oxide abuse is soaring prompting fitness concerns In a sense the new zoning is a taking An existing homeowner can still do what he wants but he has no control over adjacent properties the size and density of which were guaranteed when he bought Also there is no assurance of affordability once a developer is in the picture and the city of Lakewood has no accounting of how various affordable units have been built at least the number has not been made inhabitants when appealed in council meetings The burden of infrastructure more water taps sewage lines and roadways has not been figured into the densification projection check out the traffic on Wadsworth Boulevard now We are explained that the change will be gradual with no bulldozers showing up en masse on January st Cut to the story of the frog who does not realize he is cooking in the pot that gradually warms to boiling C Greenman Lakewood Sign up for Sound Off to get a weekly roundup of our columns editorials and more To send a letter to the editor about this article submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by email or mail
