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California's Legal Smoking Age Set to Rise to 21

posted by n1 on Thursday May 05 2016, @09:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the magical-numbers dept.

takyon writes:

Late Wednesday, Brown signed the bill raising the age for tobacco use, including vaping, to 21, the Associated Press reports. He also vetoed a bill that would have asked voters to divert tobacco taxes to pay for the health expenses of those with tobacco-related ailments, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Source: NPR

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday May 06 2016, @05:33PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Friday May 06 2016, @05:33PM (#342633) Homepage Journal

    Indeed. The health effects of lead and asbestos and PCBs and a host of other really nasty things were unknown for decades or even longer. And it doesn't help that tobacco folks withheld evidence of the link between smoking and cancer for a very long time.

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