Connecticut Tobacco Purchase Age Increase Passes First Committee Hearing
A bill seeking to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21-years-old in Connecticut has passed its first committee hearing and…
Rockland County, N.Y. Tobacco Purchase Age Increase Awaits Executive’s Signature
The Rockland County, N.Y. legislature passed an ordinance raising the minimum age to purchase tobacco products, e-cigarettes and other alternative tobacco products from 18 to…
Topeka, Kan. Barred From Raising Tobacco Purchase Age
The tobacco purchase age increase that was supposed to have gone into effect in Topeka, Kan. is now indefinitely on hold after a Shawnee County…
Chicopee, Mass. Approves Tobacco Purchasing Age Increase
The Springfield, Mass. suburb of Chicopee has become the latest city to approve an increase in the minimum age to purchase tobacco products, as on…
North Mankato, Minn. Amends Tobacco Purchase Age Increase, Will Raise to 21
The ongoing saga of whether or not a pair of cities in Minneapolis will raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to…
Washington State Senate Fails to Act on Tobacco Purchase Age Increase Bill
With the closing of the regular session of the Washington state legislature on March 8, a number of bills seeking to raise the minimum age…
Florida Tobacco Purchase Age Increase Bill Dies
Florida will not be among the states to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products to 21-years-old, as a bill seeking the increase died…
Minnesota Minimum Tobacco Purchasing Age Bill Introduced Again
A bipartisan group of legislators has introduced a bill that would raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco from 18 to 21 in the state….
Georgetown, Mass. to Raise Tobacco Purchase Age May 1
The minimum age to purchase tobacco products in Georgetown, Mass. is going up to 21-years-old as of May 1, as the town’s board of health…
Peoria, Ill. Tobacco Purchasing Age Increase Proposed
Jim Ardis—the mayor of Peoria, Ill.—has proposed raising the minimum age to purchase tobacco from 18 to 21. Ardis will make the proposal tonight at…
West Virginia Tobacco Purchasing Age Hike Fails
Bills that would have raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco from 18 to 21 have failed to pass. Both S.B. 13 and H.B. 2331…