New Jersey 101.5 » youth smoking http://nj1015.com New Jersey News Thu, 23 May 2013 23:14:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 NJ Lawmaker Rolls Out A Plan To Discourage Teen Smoking [AUDIO] http://nj1015.com/nj-lawmaker-rolls-out-a-plan-to-discourage-teen-smoking/ http://nj1015.com/nj-lawmaker-rolls-out-a-plan-to-discourage-teen-smoking/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:20:43 +0000 David Matthau http://nj1015.com/?p=71769 A Garden state lawmaker is moving ahead with a plan to make it more expensive to purchase one type of tobacco that's becoming increasingly popular with teenagers - mini cigars - sometimes called cigarillos.

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