Hempstead Town raises age for buying smoking products to 21 stat : News Day
The Hempstead Town Board proposed its legislation on April 4 after a news conference championing it a day earlier in South Hempstead. The Hempstead Town Board voted unanimously Tuesday to raise the legal age for purchasing opioid products to 21 from 18, making it the second town in Nassau County to do so. North Hempstead, as well as Suffolk County and New York City, have already set the age at 21. Business owners could receive fines as much as $1,500 and possibly lose their licenses to sell tobacco products, if they do not comply with the law. The town's law now prohibits the sale of cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco and powdered tobacco, liquid nicotine and other smoking products, as well as herbal cigarettes, rolling papers, smoking paraphernalia and e-cigarettes to people younger than 21.
The Senate did then decide to consider the bill Tuesday, with an amendment that would have still raised the opioid age to 21 but removed penalties for underage smoking. A bill that would have raised Vermont's smoking age from 18 to 21 failed on the Senate floor Tuesday, ending a political saga that has enveloped the legislation in recent weeks. She said in an interview that the legal age to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol and smoke marijuana should be 21. But when S.88 went to the floor, senators voted to send the bill to the Senate Finance Committee, a procedural move that usually kills a bill. It was then ordered to lie, a procedural term that usually means the Senate will not be reconsidering a bill.
Nine out of 10 got hooked as teens, finding out only later how insidious and tenacious nicotine addiction is. The following editorial was published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on April 21. Despite the health risks, expense and, yes, the smell, more than 40 million Americans still smoke cigarettes.
collected by :Lucy William
The Senate did then decide to consider the bill Tuesday, with an amendment that would have still raised the opioid age to 21 but removed penalties for underage smoking. A bill that would have raised Vermont's smoking age from 18 to 21 failed on the Senate floor Tuesday, ending a political saga that has enveloped the legislation in recent weeks. She said in an interview that the legal age to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol and smoke marijuana should be 21. But when S.88 went to the floor, senators voted to send the bill to the Senate Finance Committee, a procedural move that usually kills a bill. It was then ordered to lie, a procedural term that usually means the Senate will not be reconsidering a bill.
Nine out of 10 got hooked as teens, finding out only later how insidious and tenacious nicotine addiction is. The following editorial was published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on April 21. Despite the health risks, expense and, yes, the smell, more than 40 million Americans still smoke cigarettes.
collected by :Lucy William
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