Sentences with phrase «purchasing tobacco»

Secondly, there are many things your underage children are prohibited from: contributing to RRSPs, voting, joining the military, purchasing tobacco & alcohol, working beyond a certain number of hours in a week, and many more similar prohibitions.

A year after St. Louis and St. Louis County passed legislation to raise the age of purchasing tobacco products to 21, teenagers are still possessing these products at a high rate.

The state age for legally purchasing tobacco products is 18.

Anti-smoking advocates in Onondaga County are pushing to raise the county's legal age for purchasing tobacco products from 19 to 21.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced Monday morning she and other Council members will introduce legislation next month to raise the minimum legal age for purchasing all tobacco products from 18 to 21.

In his State of the County address, Ulster County Executive Mike Hein said he would push for the county to raise the age for purchasing tobacco products from 18 to 21.

Tompkins County could follow Cortland's lead and raise its minimum age for purchasing tobacco to

The legislation would prohibit the use of EBT cards at not just casinos, liquor stores and strip clubs, but also from purchasing tobacco and alcohol.

Majority Republicans on the Nassau County Legislature have proposed a bill to raise the age to purchase tobacco products to 21 from 18, a year after blocking an attempt by Democrats to update the local law.

In a press release issued Monday, Jim Calvin, president of the New York State Association of Convenience Stores, said instead of raising the age to purchase tobacco products, lawmakers should make it illegal for people under 18 to possess tobacco.

The Ulster County Legislature is scheduled to hold a public hearing at 6:15 p.m. on April 10 on a local law that would raise the age to 21 to purchase tobacco products within Ulster County.

In Dutchess County, the Legislature's Government Services Committee last month defeated a proposed local law that would have raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco products in that county to 21.

PLATTSBURGH — A chief goal is targeting counties to increase the age to purchase tobacco products to 21

PLATTSBURGH — A chief goal is targeting counties to increase the age to purchase tobacco products to 21 more

And last year, Onondaga and Tompkins counties raised the age to purchase tobacco to 21.

Suffolk County is poised to be the first county nationwide keeping cigarettes out of the hands of teens as the county legislature approved a measure which will raise the age one can purchase tobacco products from 19 to 21 Tuesday night.

The legal age to purchase tobacco has been raised to 21 years old in the town of North Hempstead, effective Wednesday.

While the Suffolk County Legislature has been considering increasing the age for everyone throughout the county to purchase tobacco — from age 19 to 21 — another measure could ban smoking completely in a few areas around Suffolk: the community college campuses.

NEW CASTLE — The Town of New Castle might make it illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to purchase tobacco products, including vape pens, electronic cigarettes, chewing tobacco, cigars, among others.

The Westchester County Board of Legislators» Democratic caucus is aiming to tighten regulations on smoking with a bill that proposes to raise the age for those allowed to purchase tobacco products.

If the bill makes its way out of committees and is ultimately approved by the full county board, Westchester would follow 10 other counties in the state that have raised the minimum age to purchase tobacco to 21.

When asked if kids will just find some other way to try and purchase tobacco and vaping products after raising the age, Greenstein says raising awareness can still make an impact.

After a contentious public hearing in the middle of last month on raising the age to purchase tobacco from 19 to 21, the Suffolk County Legislature will hold a second hearing on Tuesday afternoon at its general meeting in Riverside.

Cortland County did pass a local law raising the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to

(The state isn't planning to tax sales to Native Americans, only to non-natives who purchase tobacco products on tribal land.)

In August, as Politico reported, she purchased tobacco stocks and stocks in pharma giants Merck and Bayer.

Anyway, I purchased the tobacco baskets through them.

Anyway, I purchased the tobacco baskets through them.

May I ask where you purchased the tobacco basket on the Canton Trade Days grounds?

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The growth of ethical food purchases now make up close to 10 % of grocery purchases in the UK, which is double that of tobacco.

The purchase of the tobacco shares especially raised concerns, because one of the CDC's goals is to prevent and reduce smoking.

Other tobacco products, including cigars and chewing tobacco, face a tax rate of 30 % of the purchase price.

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Other specific factors to have contributed to the CPI increase over the past year have been large increases in insurance and tobacco prices, much of which were tax - related, and house purchase prices, which have been partly driven by strength in housing demand attempting to avoid the GST (and accommodated by easy credit availability).

While some of the rise in inflation over the past year or so reflects increases in the price of oil and tax - related increases in the cost of insurance, house purchase and cigarettes and tobacco, the pick - up in inflation has been quite broadly based (Table 12).

All non-grocery products are excluded from Tesco Brand Guarantee, including, for example, Fuel, in - store concession purchases, tobacco etc..

These include tobacco, infant formula milk and prescription medicines, or purchases from Tesco Outlet eBay store.

«non-qualifying products, including tobacco or tobacco related products, lottery, stamps, prescription medicines, infant formulae milk, Tesco gift cards, 3rd party gift cards, saving stamps, in store concessions, Paypoint payments or for purchases of some Tesco Bank products.»

The Ulster County Legislature voted unanimously Tuesday to raise the age for tobacco purchase to 21.

When the law takes effect, Ulster County will join more than a dozen localities statewide — including Orange, Rockland, Sullivan and Albany counties — that have raise the minimum age for tobacco purchases, according to the Preventing Tobacco Addiction Foundation, which is championing «Tobacco 21,» a national effort aimed at raising the age to 21 nationwide.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> The head of a trade organization that represents neighborhood convenience stores said a proposal by Ulster County Executive Michael Hein to raise the age for tobacco purchases to 21 is «based on a flawed assumption» and would cause businesses to «forfeit legitimate sales.»

The Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation, a New York State public benefit corporation, was created to purchase New York State's share of the tobacco settlement revenues.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone signed into law Monday a historic bill that makes Suffolk the first municipality in the country to raise the age limit to 21 for tobacco purchases.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone signed a new law Monday raising the age limit to 21 for tobacco purchases.

Properly referred to as Tobacco Products Duty, but more widely known by its shortened name, Tobacco Duty is an excise duty charged on purchases of tobacco products.

1/31 CDC chief Brenda Fitzgerald is forced to resign over her purchase of stock in one of the world's largest tobacco companies.

Anti-tobacco & big tobacco team up to deny inexpensive, roll - your - own cigarettes to consumers The lawmakers of America have done as both big tobacco and anti-tobacco (talk about strange bedfellows) demanded and banned citizens from purchasing machine - rolled tobacco cartons.

The Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation, a New York State public benefit corporation, was created in 2003 to purchase New York State's share of the tobacco settlement revenues.

The Massachusetts Senate has voted overwhelmingly to raise the minimum age for purchasing cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21 across the state.

That's because the New York City Council voted overwhelmingly to approve a bill that would raise the purchasing age for cigarettes, certain tobacco products and even electronic - vapor smokes from 18 to 21.