Hillsdale, N.J. To Consider Tobacco Purchase Age Increase
The borough of Hillsdale, N.J. could be the next municipality to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products, as the borough council has introduced…
Grandview Heights, Ohio Won’t Criminalize Possession of Tobacco
When the city of Grandview Heights, Ohio increased the minimum age to purchase tobacco and other nicotine delivery products last month, it also made possession of those…
Increase in Minimum Purchasing Age for Tobacco Proposed in Pennsylvania
There’s another anti-tobacco bill in the state of Pennsylvania, this time, new rules on who is able to purchase tobacco. Rep. Vanessa Brown, D-Philadelphia, has…
Healdsburg, Calif. Suspends Tobacco Purchase Age Increase
Just about a year since voting to increase the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21 and three months since the change…
Bill to Raise Tobacco Purchase Age to 21 Introduced in U.S. Senate
A bill to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco to 21-years-old nationwide has been introduced in the United States Senate, and it comes from…
Grandview Heights, Ohio Increases Tobacco Purchase and Consumption Age to 21 (Update)
Soon it will not only be illegal for a purchase under the age of 21 to purchase a tobacco product, but also to be in…
California Tobacco Restrictions Tabled Until Next Year
Yesterday, time expired on the most recent session of the California legislative calendar, and it came and went without any action on a variety of…
Age Increase & Smoking Ban Bills Move Forward in California
Yesterday, the California State Senate passed a half dozen anti-tobacco measures as part of the state’s Special Session, most notably an expansion to the current…
Peabody, Mass. Ups Tobacco Purchase Age
The Boston suburb of Peabody, Mass. will be increasing the minimum age to purchase tobacco products and electronic cigarettes before the end of the year,…
Berkeley, Calif. City Councilman Wants to Raise Tobacco Purchase Age
While electronic cigarettes may be to blame, the age to purchase tobacco products in Berkeley, Calif. could be changing, after Councilman Jesse Arreguín has said…
Peabody, Mass. to Vote on Tobacco Purchase Age Increase
The Peabody Board of Health will vote this Thursday, Aug. 27, on a proposal that would increase the minimum age to purchase tobacco products in…
