The Evanston Health Action Council tonight will urge Evanston aldermen to raise the minimum age for tobacco sales from 18 to 21…
Report urges 21 as minimum age for tobacco sales – Evanston Now
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Increasing The Minimum Legal Sale Age For Tobacco Products To 21 – Tobacco Free Kids
Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, killing 480,000 people each year. It is known to cause cancer, heart disease and respiratory diseases, among other health disorders…
Raise the tobacco purchase age to 21 – Baltimore Sun
Maryland lawmakers on Monday introduced a bill to restrict the sale of tobacco products in the state to those age 21 and older instead of the current age of 18. If passed, that would make Mary land the strictest state in the nation when it comes to cigarette purchases…
1/23/2014 – Tobacco 21, An Idea Whose Time Has Come – New England Journal Of Medicine
On November 19, 2013, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed into law the “Tobacco 21” bill, imposing the strictest age restriction on tobacco sales of any major U.S. city…
11/15/2013 – Raise the Smoking Age to 21 – Slate
The Obama administration is facing a health care deadline. I’m not referring to the White House’s self-imposed target date to unsuck healthcare.gov. I mean that the administration has until summer 2014 to advise Congress of the health benefits of raising the age of tobacco sales from 18 years old to 21…