youth smoking

Now that New York has raised the minimum legal age to smoke to 21, is NJ far behind?

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.

More work needs to be done to keep young Americans from using tobacco, including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes on tobacco products, the U.S. Surgeon General's office said in a report released Thursday.