Cenk Uygur
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Smoking Age Increased To 21 In Major US City

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November 21, 2013

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"Mayor Bloomberg signed a bill into law Tuesday raising the legal age to buy cigarettes from 18 to 21 -- making New York the first major city in the country to enact such a restrictive law. The law will take effect in 180 days after Bloomberg put his signature on the measure, passed by the City Council last month. Bloomberg said it "will prevent young people, we think, from experimenting with tobacco when they are most likely to become addicted.""* Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from Erin Durkin / Daily News:

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