Experts call for 'tobacco-free world' and raising legal age for cigarettes

Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 19:41 in Health & Medicine

Among a generation of kids ranging from today's 15-year-olds to babies only now being contemplated, shifting the minimum legal age for tobacco purchases from 18 to 21 across the United States now would prevent a quarter-million premature deaths, says a new report. 

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