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Television (including Philippine cable channels, whether broadcasting foreign or local content, particularly during news and public affairs programs) and radio stations would not air tobacco advertising from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. local time (before R.A. 9211 was passed, it was from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.), with similar restrictions also implemented in ...
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer today signed legislation that will raise the minimum age of tobacco sales in the state from 18 to 21. The legislation brings the state in alignment with federal law.
State tobacco laws partly changed in 1992 under the George H.W. Bush administration when Congress enacted the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Reorganization Act, whose Synar Amendment forced states to create their own laws to have a minimum age of eighteen to purchase tobacco or else lose funding from the Substance Abuse ...
Boston, February 9, 2009, banned by the Boston Public Health Commission on outside patios of bars and restaurants; also banned on February 9, 2019 (10 years later than the other new restrictions), in cigar and hookah bars, unless the establishment obtains an additional 10-year exemption. Additionally, smoking is banned in all hotel rooms in the ...
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (also known as the FSPTC Act) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on June 22, 2009. This bill changed the scope of tobacco policy in the United States by giving the FDA the ability to regulate tobacco products, similar to how it has regulated food and pharmaceuticals since the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.
Not specific to tobacco use, covers all lawful activities but has been interpreted by the courts as not creating any new substantive rights Colorado: 1990 CO REV. STAT. ANN § 24-34-402.5 Not specific to tobacco use, covers all lawful activities Connecticut: 2003 CT GEN. STAT. ANN. § 31-40s District of Columbia: 1993 D.C. CODE ANN. § 7-1703.3 ...
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer repealed a handful of abortion restrictions in Michigan, making changes long-awaited by abortion rights proponents. Whitmer signs Michigan 'Reproductive Health Act,' repeals ...
A sign advertising the sale of Kratom is pictured outside the Conoco gas station at the corner of Gilbert and Benton streets Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024 in Iowa City, Iowa.