US lawmakers push bipartisan bill to raise the federal minimum buying age for tobacco to 21

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday introduced bicameral legislation that would raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21, weeks after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would introduce his own bill.

U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill that would raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21.Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Todd Young, R-Ind. introduced the bill in the Senate.legislationThe odds of Congress raising the federal age limit this year are high with support from both parties in both houses of Congress. Reps. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., and Chris Stewart, R-Utah introduced legislation in the House while Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Todd Young, R-Ind.

The latest bill, known as the Tobacco to 21 Act, would raise the age for all tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars and e-cigarettes. It would prohibit retailers from selling tobacco products to anyone under the age of 30 without photo identification. "The Tobacco to 21 Act will be an important step to protect kids from the nation's leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States, and we urge our nation's leaders to quickly pass this lifesaving legislation," American Lung Association CEO Harold Wimmer said in a statement.

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