Source: Richard Craver, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 8/10/19



Momentum is growing across the nation for raising the minimum age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21. However, North Carolina’s Republican legislative leaders appear content to remain on the sideline as the current session of the N.C. General Assembly nears its end. Despite speculation in January that 2019 might be the year the drive for age restrictions on tobacco purchases moved forward, no bill has been introduced toward that goal.

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