Indiana State: New Federal Law Raising Smoking and Vaping Age Goes Into Effect July 13, 2020 Par: [email protected] Dernire mise jour: July 13, 2020 Temps de lecture: 3 minutes In order to combat the rise of e-cigarettes among middle and high school students, the American government amended a law in December 2019 raising the minimum legal age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21 years old[1]
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So if there had been no tobacco use in 2016, that number would have been 561,737 lower, and 187,246 people would not have to say goodbye to their loved ones
A ban will also lead to unconstitutional policing and other negative interactions with local law enforcement." The ACLU letter noted that "a menthol cigarette ban would disproportionately impact communities of color, result in criminalization of the market, and exacerbate mass incarceration." The ban "also risks creating large underground, illegal markets." That "would be a massive law enforcement problem for states, counties, and cities, since all states treat unlicensed sale of tobacco products as a crimeusually as a felony punishable by imprisonment." The FDA glides over that point, instead emphasizing that the agency "cannot and will not enforce against individual consumers for possession or use of menthol cigarettes." But many of those individual consumers will look for ways to continue smoking the kind of cigarettes they like, and that demand will be filled by other individuals, who in turn will be subject to criminal penalties
It was estimated that over 14,000 smokers gave up as a direct result of the visceral and iconic campaign, doubling attendance at smoking cessation clinics year on year, and saving the NHS millions
