GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Surgeon General issues rare advisory calling for local taxes, indoor public vaping bans
The U.S. Surgeon General issued an advisory Tuesday urging new local restrictions including taxes and indoor vaping bans to combat youth e-cigarette use, a pivotal development given the office's global stature on tobacco enforcement. The move by Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams comes a day after the National Institute for Drug Abuse issued new data showing nearly 21 percent of high school seniors say they vaped a nicotine product within the past 30 days, up from 11 percent a year ago. The increase, part of the annual Monitoring the Future survey on drug use among adolescents, was the largest for any substance use in the survey's 43-year history.
Agencies across the country, including the LAPD, are using a device developed here in Minnesota.Connie Sylvester is the CEO of Water Rescue Innovations in Duluth, where the product, ARM-LOC, is for sale. St. Paul Fire Training Officer Jovan Palmieri says firefighters were using a rescue bag that has a ball on one end and a throw rope on the other. Now, they have begun training with the ARM-LOC.
In city after city, officials have been delighted with the chain’s ability to repair the civic eyesores they have tried to fix for years. The stores produce a halo effect — a growth zone stretching for blocks. Because of the store-locating strategy, Hy-Vee is generating more economic impact than the estimated $390 million for 15 stores it has built or planned. When other grocery chains expand, they seek prime locations in thriving shopping areas. Woodbury, for example, is home to 10 supermarkets in booming commercial areas. But when Hy-Vee came to the metro area 2015, it deliberately ignored Woodbury, according to Oakdale community development director Bob Streetar.
