As reported by the Riverside Press-Enterprise:
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!California’s Senate is poised to vote on a sweeping package of anti-smoking measures—including raising the smoking age to 21— as lawmakers try to crack down on tobacco use and the health problems that flow from it.
If the Senate approves Thursday and Gov. Jerry Brown signs off, California would become the second state to move the age to buy cigarettes from 18 to 21, and electronic cigarettes would face the same restrictions as tobacco products.
The six bills represent California’s most substantial anti-tobacco push in nearly two decades, the American Cancer Society said. But advocates couldn’t garner enough support to raise cigarette taxes, which requires a two-thirds supermajority. The Cancer Society and other groups are seeking to qualify an initiative for the 2016 ballot. …
More “nanny stateism” by effing liberals who know better than we and will pass laws to prove it! What do you bet that smuggling will become a full time occupation and “cigarette taxes” will fall?