Source: Richard Craver, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 12/28/19


The age-21 tobacco era began quietly in North Carolina and across the country with a brief acknowledgement by the Trump administration Friday. The three-sentence statement from the Food and Drug Administration confirmed the restrictions signed into law by President Donald Trump on Dec. 20 went into effect nationwide that day. The law gave the federal government 180 days to write new regulations barring the sale of tobacco to those under 21, plus another 90 days for those regulations to go into effect.

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