He founded the Preventing Tobacco Addiction Foundation in 1996 and began to push for state legislatures to raise the tobacco sales age. At first, he had scant success. But in 2003, a town in ...
With more than two months to go in the 2024-25 school year, 85 vapes already have been seized from students at Eastern ...
North Carolina legislators want to raise the legal sales age for tobacco products to 21, a move to bring the state in line with federal law. North Carolina legislators want to raise the legal ...
North Carolina Health News reports the House bill would also establish a tobacco retail sales permitting system. North Carolina and six other states still allow 18-year-olds to buy tobacco. Other news ...
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- There is a new, bipartisan push to crack down on vaping and tobacco use among teens. North Carolina lawmakers introduced House Bill 430, also known as "Solly's Law," on ...
In Ellen Ailts’ column, “Raising the tobacco sale age to 21 could have unintended negative consequences,” she mentioned how policies of the past have precipitously dropped the teen smoking rate. I ...