{"id":27270,"date":"2019-12-22T02:32:04","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T07:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=27270"},"modified":"2019-12-31T20:32:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T01:32:49","slug":"federal-law-raises-minimum-age-to-buy-tobacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2019\/12\/22\/federal-law-raises-minimum-age-to-buy-tobacco\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Law Raises Minimum Age To Buy Tobacco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24537\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2019\/06\/20\/new-laws-take-effect-next-week\/new-laws\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/New-Laws.jpg?fit=445%2C504&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"445,504\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"New Laws\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/New-Laws.jpg?fit=445%2C504&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/New-Laws.jpg?resize=265%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/New-Laws.jpg?resize=265%2C300&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/New-Laws.jpg?w=445&amp;ssl=1 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><br \/>\nA new federal law sets the minimum age to buy tobacco products at 21.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump signed the measure into law Friday as part of the $1.4 trillion spending agreement to fund the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>A bipartisan group of senators had wanted the measure for some time. They finally got it pushed through by attaching it to spending bills that had to pass to avoid a government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>The measure prohibits the sale of vaping products and traditional tobacco products like cigarettes to anyone under the age of 21.<\/p>\n<p>Many states have already raised their legal ages for purchasing tobacco, but the new measure mandates the minimum age of 21 nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The change will take effect in about nine months.<br \/>\nSource: WAVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new federal law sets the minimum age to buy tobacco products at 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":24537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-75Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-12 00:21:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/New-Laws.jpg?fit=445%2C504&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27271,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27270\/revisions\/27271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}