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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.
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California's Legal Smoking Age Set to Rise to 21
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You know, the difference between this company and the Titanic is that the
Titanic had paying customers.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday May 06 2016, @06:41PM
> you're free to do whatever you want by yourself.
When that stuff you keep putting up your lungs results in a quarter-million dollars hospital cancer bill, my insurance rates go up.
And that's when people actually respect others by not vaping/smoking in their faces.
As for most other money-vs-health issues, California and Europe are always a step ahead in protecting people (because healthy people pay more taxes).