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New Zealand Passes Law to Ban Smoking for Next Generation
The new legislation states that tobacco cannot be sold to anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 2009, effectively outlawing tobacco for the next generation.
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New Zealand Passes Law Banning Future Generations From Buying Cigarettes
New Zealand has passed into law a unique plan to phase out tobacco smoking by imposing a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes. The law states that tobacco can’t ever be sold to anybody born on or after Jan. 1, 2009. It means the minimum age for buying cigarettes will keep going up and up. In theory, somebody trying...
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Leaders Protest Alcohol, Tobacco Stores in Area of Prince George's
Residents and leaders of an area of Prince George’s County, Maryland, say there are too many liquor and tobacco stores. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.
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Prince George's Community Concerned by Concentration of Liquor, Tobacco Shops
A group of residents and leaders held a demonstration outside a soon-to-open tobacco and convenience store in Seat Pleasant, Maryland, Monday to protest what they say are too many similar shops in their community. “Like any community, we want economic development but not this type of economic development,” Seat Pleasant Mayor Kelly Porter said outside the Friendly Mart Tobacco 24/7…