WASHINGTON — Maryland lawmakers are considering a bill that would make it illegal for anyone under 21 to buy tobacco products.
The current minimum age in Maryland is 18. Six states and the District of Columbia have already raised the purchase age to 21, and Virginia is on track to enact similar legislation.
Jocelyn Collins, the government relations director for the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network, says the number of teenagers taking up smoking is on the increase. The latest figures, she says, show that 1,900 teenagers a year in Maryland become daily smokers.
Collins says e-cigarettes are the favored product among young people, “The second top thing they’re using is they’re smoking cigars, the third thing is cigarettes and the fourth thing is smokeless tobacco, so this is a real concern for us.”
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4 comments:
but its legal to give them a gun and kill for our country, another gem of libtard logic
Like this will do a lot of good. Nobody on the shore buys cigarettes in MD anyway. You'd be crazy to. Everytime they think they will make more money they make less because that many more people go out of MD to buy cigarettes. They can vote and go to war at 18 but ca't buy cigarettes? C'mon dems.
So we're not worried about all the thousands of illegals running across our boarders but instead let's worry about trying to stop a twenty year old from puffing away on a tobacco stick
I guess they all believe 20 year olds are just going to not smoke
Wow!!!!
That's all I can say
Every years they do something stupid like this. They don't address any real issues they just find stupid stuff to waste their time on.
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