Smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including nearly 42,000 deaths from second-hand smoke. This equates to 1 in 5 deaths per year or 1,300 deaths per day. As of November 1, 2017, smokers must be at least 21 years of age to purchase these products. Bright yellow signs will highlight the demands of the new era and help store owners and their employees explain the law to the public. Under the new law, sellers who sell tobacco products to someone under the age of 21 can face fines of up to $1,000 and are subject to licence suspension or revocation. In addition, according to the plaintiffs, Juul failed to verify the age of consumers of its product and violated children`s privacy laws by storing their email addresses and using them to send them advertisements. To comply with the law, traders authorized to sell tobacco must affix a 3 » x 6 » mark indicating the legal penalty for the sale of tobacco products to minors, in places where tobacco products are displayed and in cash registers. These signs can nj.gov/health/fhs/tobacco/regulations/ be downloaded from the Ministry of Health website. Tobacco sellers can also contact their local health service. An online directory of local health services is available in localhealth.nj.gov. As a general rule, new laws do not come into force immediately. The measure simply raised the age limit in existing law, allowing it to be implemented immediately, an FDA spokesman said Friday.
The minimum legal age for the purchase of 21 years coincides with the laws for the sale of alcohol. Raising the legal drinking age to 21 has helped reduce the number of deaths from drunk driving and alcohol dependence among youth. The clause, which raises the national legal minimum age from 18 to 21, was included in the huge budget bill passed by Congress and signed by the president on Dec. 20. About one-third of states already have their own laws restricting the sale of tobacco to people 21 and older. The measure will come into effect ± next year and was approved by the Senate as part of a broader budget bill passed as part of an increase in the use of e-cigarettes and the resulting diseases. Thus, tobacco and e-cigarettes will include alcohol in the group of substances prohibited to children under 21 ± years of age. A survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 75% of adults support the minimum age to sell tobacco products of 21, including 7 in 10 smokers. Here`s the problem: Smoking is the most common cause of preventable death in the United States Many high school students reach the age of 18, which is the legal age to buy tobacco and e-cigarettes in most states during their senior year of school, and often buy tobacco, e-cigarettes, and other tobacco products from young students. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends raising the minimum age to buy tobacco to 21.
Laws like Tobacco 21 are an easy way to save young lives. The U.S. Congress voted Thursday to raise the minimum smoking age from 18 to 2±1. The decision applies to both tobacco smokers and those who « vape » with e-cigarettes. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), more than 42 people have died©in the United States so far from lung damage caused by e-cigarette use± and more than 2,000 cases of non-fatal lung damage have been noted. Anti-smoking activists said raising the minimum age should make it even harder for young people to get tobacco, especially high school students who have friends and peers over the age of 18 who buy it. Young people`s brains are sensitive to the addictive properties of nicotine because their brains are still developing. « Raising the minimum age for tobacco sales from 19 to 21 helps protect New Jersey youth from the deadly effects of smoking, » said Health Commissioner Cathleen Bennett. « The younger people start smoking, the more addicted they become and the harder it is to quit. By increasing the age of purchase, our young people will be less likely to use tobacco and develop an addiction. Raising the age of tobacco could mean that older high school students and younger students cannot buy tobacco products for their young friends.
New Jersey is the third state in the country to raise the age of cigarette purchase to 21 after Hawaii and California. About 13.5 percent of New Jersey adults ages 18 to 24 smoke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Among teens ages 12 to 18 in New Jersey, 8.2 percent smoke. The truth is that several studies conducted have revealed damage to the lungs± such as pneumonia and lesions similar to emphysema, which is one of the diseases that cause chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), among other things. The app, which is owned by Facebook, fills the last loophole left in the platform to promote these products, because while direct mail was already banned, influencers could continue to promote them through sponsored content.