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Statement on Hawaii Phasing Out Cigarette Sales

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February 4, 2019
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Statement from ASH Executive Director Laurent Huber Monday, February 4, 2019 ASH fully supports Hawaii’s proposal to phase cigarettes out of the Hawaiian market by 2024.  Cigarettes are highly engineered nico...
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Tobacco 21: Campaign Case Study

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September 1, 2016
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This case study is intended as a teaching device for municipalities that are just getting started or have already begun working to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products to 21. Read the Case Stud...
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Age to buy tobacco in Chicago increasing to 21 this week

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July 1, 2016
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CHICAGO (AP) — The minimum age in Chicago for buying cigarettes and other tobacco products goes up to 21 at the end of the week. The city on Friday joins about 170 local jurisdictions around the country that...
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Bill to raise legal smoking age to 21 in Guam passes

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June 17, 2016
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Guam lawmakers Friday passed legislation aimed at curbing the island’s rate of tobacco users by increasing the minimum age to purchase tobacco-related products, and electronic cigarettes, to 21. Read more&g...
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Big Tobacco takes hit; City Council bolsters anti-smoking efforts

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March 17, 2016
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Big Tobacco took it on the chin Wednesday when Chicago raised its smoking age to 21, outlawed discounts, slapped a $6 million tax on cigars, roll-your-own tobacco and smokeless tobacco and banned chaw altogethe...
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California Lawmakers Vote to Raise Smoking, Vaping Age to 21

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March 11, 2016
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California lawmakers voted Thursday to raise the legal age for purchasing and using tobacco and e-cigarettes from 18 to 21, putting the nation's most populous state on the brink of becoming only the second afte...
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Raise the Legal Age for Cigarette Sales to 21

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March 7, 2016
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The biggest reason to raise the legal age to 21 is to reduce young people’s access to tobacco when they are more likely to become addicted and when their brains are still developing. Studies have found that ni...
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Princeton, NJ bans tobacco sales to customers under 21

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April 22, 2015
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Princeton has become the fifth New Jersey town to ban tobacco sales to customers under 21. The town's health board unanimously adopted the ordinance. Read more>...
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Tobacco Free Generation

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April 9, 2015
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In Tasmania, Australia last week, a bill was introduced to the Legislative Council that would create a “Tobacco Free Generation.” You can read the draft text of the bill here>. The phrase tobacco free gen...
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Increasing the Minimum Age

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February 5, 2015
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In the past few years, several localities have increased the minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21. The first to increase the minimum sales age to 21 was Needham, MA, a suburb of Boston, in 2005. Following ...
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Legal Victories in U.S. Tobacco Control 2014

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December 29, 2014
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Several cities raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco products to 21 Increasing the minimum age is very important because 95% of smokers start by their early twenties. The cities that have taken this ...
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New Jersey Senate passes bill to raise age to buy tobacco products to 21

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July 1, 2014
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TRENTON, New Jersey — New Jersey might become the first state in the nation to raise the legal age to purchase tobacco products and electronic cigarettes to 21. The state Senate on Monday passed a bill that wo...
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NY to Raise Tobacco Buying Age to 21

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October 31, 2013
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Young New Yorkers who want to light up will soon have to wait for their 21st birthdays before they can buy a pack of smokes after lawmakers in the nation's most populous city voted overwhelmingly to raise the t...

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