RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Raising the legal age to buy tobacco to higher than 18 would likely prevent premature death for hundreds of thousands of people, according to a report issued Thursday by the Institute of Medicine.
The report examines the public health effects of increasing the age to 19, 21 or 25. While it doesn't make any recommendations, officials say, it provides the scientific guidance state and local governments need to evaluate policies aimed at reducing tobacco use by young people.
It also adds backing to government efforts to reduce the death and disease caused by tobacco on the heels of the 50th anniversary of the landmark 1964 surgeon general's report that launched the anti-smoking movement.
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7 comments:
More freedom robbing liberal BS.
12:38 AMEN
As much money as the government makes off of the nicotine industry...smh
Just regulate every part of our lives, enough, is enough. Personal choice and responsibility is enough!!!!! I am not a smoker.
Not a smoker but just more nanny state. Next they'll try to ban the matches. Or burritos to save the atmosphere from methane releases!
Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chances!
Can't buy cigarrettes due to age but can get all the heroin I want!
Make everything 21 no younger. This will save lots of lives too, no one will be stupid enough to join the military!
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