My son was not of legal age to drink alcohol, and he told Kevin Spacey that he was of legal age.
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In Australia, the legal age of sexual consent is 16.
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In Delhi the minimum legal age is a silly 25.
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Alabama's legal age of consent, then and now, is 16.
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The legal age of consent in New York is 17.
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Of course, you have to be of legal age to participate.
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He also said he believed the girls were of legal age.
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The legal age to drink alcoholic beverages in Massachusetts is 21.
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The legal age of marriage in South Sudan is 18 years old.
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In Ontario, Canada's most populous province, the legal age will be 21.2757.
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The legal age for marriage for Indian women is 18 years old.
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The measure also raises the legal age to purchase tobacco to 21.
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The legal age to drink alcoholic beverages in Massachusetts is 21 years old.
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The measure also raises the legal age for all gun purchases to 21.
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She was 15 at the time and below the legal age of consent.
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Beyond the legal age, those working would receive bonuses on their accumulated points.
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And, we were in the Caribbean, where the legal age for drinking is 18.
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The bill would also raise the legal age for all gun purchases to 21.
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While boys also marry before the legal age of 21, girls are disproportionately affected.
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The legal age for marriage there is 10, and marital rape is also allowed.
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The higher legal age for smoking would delay the initiation rate in two ways.
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The legal age of marriage in Nepal is 20 for men and women alike.
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They also suggest federally raising the legal age to purchase nicotine products to 21.
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The legal age of marriage in Mali is 16 for girls and 18 for boys.
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The state's legal age limit for such firearms was raised from 18 starting this year.
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The legal age for marriage in Pakistan is 18 for boys and 16 for girls.
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But having a legal age is the way our society does deal with these things.
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The federal government set a minimum legal age of 18, though provinces can raise that.
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The legal age of marriage in India is 18 for women and 21 for men.
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The minimum legal age would be 18, though provinces would be able to raise that.
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Everyone has the same opportunity to participate as long as they are of legal age.
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Raising the legal age to buy an AR-15 from 85033 to 21 is pointless.
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Polygamy is permitted, and the legal age of marriage for women is set at 85033.
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The Self-Administration has set the legal age for marriage at 18 and outlawed polygamy.
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Increasing the federal legal age limit for all firearms and ammunition from 18 to 21.
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The kiosks can be equipped with facial recognition to ensure customers are of legal age.
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No minimum legal age for marriage exists in the country and marital rape remains legal.
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The clerk in charge announced that there was no legal age limit for jury service.
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Once you're of legal age, it's not as enticing because it's around all the time.
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The legal age of marriage in India is 13 for a women and 21 for men.
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The bill would raise the legal age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21 nationwide.
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The study found that raising the minimum legal age to 21 would prevent 223,000 premature deaths.
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Over a million people turn 22011 (the legal age to vote) in the country every month.
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So maintaining the medical market is just going to lower the legal age and complicate regulation.
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State and local regulations vary, such as the legal age of purchase of e-cigarette products.
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To the Editor: Your editorial "Raise the Legal Age for Cigarette Sales" misses the harder issue.
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The study found that raising the minimum legal age to 2000 would prevent 223,000 premature deaths.
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Do you think Ezra is relieved that finally all of his exes are of legal age?
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Yemeni law does not set a legal age for marriage, nor does it criminalize marital rape.
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But whether he was of legal age or not, Kevin Spacey had no right to assault him.
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Effective in June last year, California changed the legal age to purchase tobacco from 18 to 20113.
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In India, the legal age of marriage for a woman is 18 and 21 for a man.
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We can accomplish both goals by raising the legal age for tobacco purchase to 21 without delay.
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The legal age of consent in the UK is 16, and the legal drinking age is 18.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the legal age for buying cigarettes in New York City.
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The area is nearly a million acres, with perhaps just 250 rams of legal age and size.
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In July, Cuomo signed a bill that raises the legal age to buy such products to 21.
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Feinstein said last week she'll introduce a bill that raises the minimum legal age to buy rifles.
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In Quebec and Alberta, the legal age is 18; it's 19 in the remainder of the country.
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Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the legal age to use recreational marijuana in Canada.
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States where the legal age is already 21 include Hawaii, California, New Jersey, Oregon, Maine and Massachusetts.
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Juul is also banning sales to anyone under 21, even in states where the legal age is lower.
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It also directed the government to raise the legal age of marriage to 18 years within a year.
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In Malaysia, the legal age for marriage is 103 but exemptions can be given by the appropriate judge.
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About 10% of our riders were actually under the legal age; they were under 18 years of age.
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The legal age to enter into marriage in Sudan is 10 and marital rape is not a crime.
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In December, Congress passed a law that raises the legal age to purchase any tobacco product to 21.
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The Illinois Senate also passed a bill that raises the legal age to buy assault weapons to 21.
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The legal age of marriage in Guinea is 18, but one in two girls is married before that.
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"There needs to be an option for those older teens who are under this legal age," she says.
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Thus the organization swiftly rejected Trump's call to lift the minimum legal age for buying rifles to 21.
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In fact, most drug users begin with alcohol and nicotine before marijuana — usually before they are of legal age.
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Because she is 17, Kaia doesn't technically meet the legal age limit to get a tattoo, which is 18.
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If you're single and want to be married you should be able to pursue that at any legal age.
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The country's minimum legal age of marriage for girls is 15, but some brides are as young as nine.
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The minimum legal age for marriage for citizens of other religions is 18 for men and 16 for women.
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The legal age of consent varies from state to state, but all such laws are designed to protect kids.
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Editorial California could soon raise the legal age for buying cigarettes and other tobacco products to 275, from 221.
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Federal law does not require ammunition sellers to verify if a buyer is of legal age to purchase ammunition.
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The second was just over the town line in neighboring Woburn, where the legal age until recently was 18.
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Brockwell was 26 when she first asked her doctor to sterilize her, well over the legal age of adulthood.
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The minimum legal age to own a gun in New Zealand is 16, or 18 for military-style semiautomatic weapons.
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Zuchowski provided BuzzFeed News with screenshots of the woman saying she was of legal age when she took the picture.
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We are not in the business of selling to anyone who is not of legal age to buy our products.
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Human Rights Watch, a global campaigning group, have joined the call to raise the legal age for marriage in Lebanon.
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The church also opposes the president's unconscionable bid to lower the legal age of criminal responsibility from 15 to nine.
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" Earlier this year, California became the second state after Hawaii to raise the legal age of smoking to 23. "Prop.
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He says smart phones can be just as dangerous as cigarettes, alcohol and pornography — which all have legal age limits.
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One of the bills raised the legal age for buying tobacco — for smoking, vaping or chewing — from 18 to 21.
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Police did not act further on the matter as her son, 21, was of legal age to own the weapon.
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We will not be adopting them out until her baby is much stronger and at legal age to be adopted.
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Research shows that raising the legal age for smoking can delay and even prevent the initiation of this addictive habit.
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Paul LaPage vetoed a measure that brought the legal age to purchase tobacco to 21; lawmakers, however, overrode his veto.
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This would still have put Idaho's marriage age below that of many other states, where the legal age is 18.
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In a meeting with Trump this weekend, the NRA pressed Trump not to raise the legal age for purchasing guns.
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The list includes legal age, whether you can grow legal marijuana at home, and where you can actually smoke it.
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Before they can get on the services, the models have to verify their identity to prove they're of legal age.
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Initiative 1639 will raise the legal age to buy semiautomatic rifles — widely described as assault rifles — from 18 to 21.
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Meanwhile, in Illinois, the state Senate passed a bill that raises the legal age to buy assault weapons to 21.
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And in Illinois, the state Senate passed a bill that raises the legal age to buy assault weapons to 21.
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In most provinces and territories, the legal age for buying weed is 123, except in Quebec and Alberta, where it's 18.
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It set 18 as the minimum legal age for smoking weed and plans education campaigns to discourage younger teens from indulging.
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There is no legal age in Britain to stop driving, but after 70 people must renew their license every three years.
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There is no legal age in Britain to stop driving, but drivers over 70 must renew their licenses every three years.
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Rick Scott (R) recently signed a law to increase the minimum legal age necessary to purchase rifles from 18 to 21.
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Baio said he had consensual sex with her once, but only after she had turned 18, the legal age of consent.
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In Afghanistan, the legal age of marriage for women is 16 years old, but 15 is allowed with the father's consent.
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Last year, Hawaii became the first state to pass a law to raise the legal age for purchasing tobacco to 218.
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Four states — Alabama, Alaska, New Jersey and Utah — set the legal age at 0003, and the rest set it at 2000.
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Brown previously praised Lane County for raising its legal age, arguing that it was an important move to reducing smoking rates.
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But the research on this point is pretty clear: A higher minimum legal age for buying cigarettes really does save lives.
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But arrests remain for, say, possession by people who are under the legal age of 21, unlicensed sales, and public consumption.
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At the time, Rose was a member of the Cincinnati Reds, and the legal age of consent in Ohio was 16.
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In a meeting with Trump this weekend, the NRA reportedly pressed Trump not to raise the legal age for purchasing guns.
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The minimum legal age to own a gun in New Zealand is 16, or 18 for military-style semi-automatic weapons.
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People use the traditional Korean age in everyday life, but their legal age is for most purposes based on the international calculation.
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Burns said this type of legislation can help restrict youth access by preventing products being shared between legal-age and underage peers.
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This was a decision left up to individual provinces, each of which generally followed the legal age for cigarette and alcohol purchases.
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But the research on this point is actually pretty clear: A higher minimum legal age for buying cigarettes really does save lives.
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Not only that, but the research shows that the logical comparison point — the minimum legal age for buying alcohol — saves lives, too.
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The legal age to buy tobacco in both countries is currently 18, but efforts to raise the limit to 21 are underway.
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NAMBLA's original political causes were the total abolition of any legal age of consent, and the release of child molesters from prison.
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Their daughter was not technically missing, and at 21, she is of legal age to do what she wants, campus police said.
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The federal government set the minimum legal age for buying marijuana at 21, but the provinces can raise that if they wish.
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And we continue to have bipartisan conversations on Capitol Hill in support of federal legislation to raise the legal age of purchase.
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Not only that, but the research shows that the logical comparison point — the minimum legal age for buying alcohol — saves lives too.
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At that time, 18 was the legal age to be served spirits in a bar, and I had not quite turned 17.
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Under the proposed law, Canadians of legal age will be allowed to grow up to four marijuana plants for their own consumption.
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Altria spokesman Steven Callahan said the majority of Altria's federal lobbying supports raising the legal age to buy tobacco products to 26.
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In the current spending package, one of the attached bills raises the legal age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21.
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Baio has denied all the allegations and said that he and Eggert were in a consensual relationship when she was of legal age.
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This is why we recently introduced a bipartisan bill to raise the legal age of sale for tobacco products from 18 to 21.
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As long as everyone is of legal age, everyone is consenting, and no laws are being broken then I'm game for almost anything. .
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He wasn't sure, but he believes she was 16 at the time — the legal age of consent in both the UK and Belgium.
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Trump called for stronger measures like universal background checks and raising the legal age limit for buying some weapons from 83 to 21.
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One person on Twitter pointed out that it's almost an edgier version of "22," Swift's anthem about hedonism just past the legal age.
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All of the women in the home are of legal age, but their parents continue to insist they are not of sound mind.
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Any individual (not a business or brand) can apply, so long as they have a valid YouTube channel and are of legal age.
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Law reform to set the legal age for marriage at 18 without exception should be one of the priorities of the new Parliament.
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I mean is it enough to even be talking – speaking anymore arbitrarily about juvenile versus adult, meaning legal age and majority at 18.
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Charlie Baker (R) will sign a bill into law on Friday that raises the legal age for tobacco purchases from 18 to 21.
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Trump said last week following the Florida high school massacre that the legal age to purchase all guns should be raised to 21.
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Greg Abbott, with the stroke of a pen on Monday, raised his state's legal age to purchase tobacco products to 28503 beginning Sept.
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The state's move toward raising the legal age to buy cigarettes should inspire other states to take similar steps to protect young people.
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When one of the numbers is entered, it shows "proceed" if the person is of legal age and a red "warning!" if not.
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A number of other states, including New York and Texas, have also recently passed laws to raise the minimum legal age to marry.
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They're at the legal age that they can have a drink but I dont think honestly alcohol had anything to do with this.
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He was charged with possession of a fictitious ID, public intoxication, being under legal age in a bar, and possession of alcohol underage.
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Some states have also increased the legal age for purchasing cigarettes to 21, which research shows will work to stop more people from smoking.
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She's of legal age for a tat at a traditional parlor, but she confesses she'd prefer an at-home scenario complete with potential endorphins.
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Sheikh Hasina, the current, iron-fisted prime minister of Bangladesh, has recently moved to reduce the legal age of marriage from 18 to 16.
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Many people, citing their own experiences smoking and drinking before they were of legal age, are likely skeptical of the arguments for the law.
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In its statement, the FDA says that some e-cigarette companies suggested combatting that by upping the legal age for purchasing tobacco to 21.
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Many people, citing their own experiences smoking and drinking before they were of legal age, are likely skeptical of the arguments for Oregon's law.
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By comparison, my peers from families that considered the legal age of 21 to be gospel had no idea what they were getting into.
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The minimum legal age is 18 in Alberta and Québec, although Québec's newly elected government has pledged to raise the minimum age to 21.
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The effort to raise the legal age to buy tobacco has largely been bipartisan, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen.
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But Trump also tweeted that he'll be "strongly pushing" Congress for tougher gun purchase background checks and a higher legal age for buying rifles.
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J.B. Pritzker signed legislation on Sunday that raises the legal age for purchasing cigarettes, e-cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has officially raised the legal age to buy tobacco products in the United States from 2628 to 28503.
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One woman said she was 14 years old when Moore initiated sexual contact with her, though the legal age of consent in Alabama is 16.
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One restricts the retail and internet sales of e-cigarettes and the other increases the legal age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21.
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In reality, Berchtold had taken Jan to Mexico where the two got married (at the time, the legal age to marry in Mexico was 12).
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Many people, citing their own experiences smoking and drinking before they were of legal age, are likely skeptical of the arguments for New Jersey's law.
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Thai law sets the minimum legal age for marriage at 17, though courts may allow marriage for younger individuals if there is an appropriate reason.
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Dershowitz confirmed to me that he received a massage at Epstein's Palm Beach home, adding that the woman who provided it was of legal age.
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Campaigners say the law should be changed because it discriminates against girls, who can marry at 16 whereas the legal age for men is 19.
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Drinkers of legal age crack open a bottle to celebrate a special occasion (86%), on their birthday (73%) or when having an amazing day (72%).
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Ruamsin and Kachainrum had a symbolic wedding ceremony that is not legally binding since Pitchaya is under 17, the legal age for marriage in Thailand.
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Researchers posing as shoppers in the study appeared to be 18 to 19 years old, below the legal age for purchasing these products in California.
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Experts have also suggested that the legal age for purchase of marijuana be set at 25 when Canada goes to legalize the drug next year.
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In summary, the Liberals have set a federal legal age limit for purchasing pot at 18, though provinces can alter that as they see fit.
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Juul has been advocating for legislation to raise the legal age for purchasing tobacco to 21, a move that has raised the suspicions of supporters.
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This comes on the heels of Massachusetts raising the legal age for tobacco purchases from 213 to 21, which goes into effect on December 31.
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Trump last week said he supports raising the legal age to purchase a semi-automatic gun to 21, a proposal the NRA does not back.
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WASHINGTON — The legal age in the US to smoke will rise to 21 next year, according to a new law passed by Congress on Thursday.
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He has also called for raising the legal age for buying rifles nationally to 21, and for beefing up background checks on prospective gun buyers.
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Of the five women who were teenagers at the time, two of them were 14 — under the legal age of consent in Alabama at the time.
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For example, we are actively supporting efforts at the federal and state level to raise the minimum legal age to purchase all tobacco products to 21.
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Child labor is rampant, and because only couples are hired, girls are married before the legal age of 18, said an activist who works in Satara.
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In California, legislators introduced a dozen new gun control measures this week, including proposals to raise the legal age for buying shotguns and rifles to 21.
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Maryland has a pregnancy exception that applies to children as young as 15, which is younger even than the state's legal age of consent to sex.
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TRAVEL An article last Sunday about the author David Foster Wallace's roots in Illinois misstated the legal age for drinking beer in Illinois during his adolescence.
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The Vermont House this week passed legislation imposing new restrictions on gun ownership, including raising the legal age for buying a gun to 21 years old.
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Albert also accused Kramer of having sex with the then-16-year-old, which is the legal age of consent in North Carolina where it occurred.
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He also said he believes there's possibly enough votes in the Senate to change the legal age to purchase a rifle from 18 to 21. Sen.
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She also allegedly said she "felt weird" after the two had sex and pointed out that the legal age of consent is 15 in France and Italy.
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For those of legal age yet to take their first drink, you may use this list as your very own 'spirit guide' to the ultimate Scotch experience.
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The Australian government has proposed using a facial recognition system it is developing to verify that people who seek to watch pornography online are of legal age.
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In rebutting Mujey's rape report, James' defense attorney Jonathan Schildgen introduced an unexpected theory: that Mujey was at the legal age of consent but didn't know it.
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She also allegedly says she "felt weird" after the two had sex and pointed out that the legal age of consent is 15 in France and Italy.
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Their relationship turned sexual in 2013 when she turned 16, the legal age of consent in the state, according to the affidavit as described in news reports.
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Despite having flagged the issue to authorities, police did not act further on the matter as her son, 21, was of legal age to own the weapon.
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Three weeks after the shooting in Parkland, Florida lawmakers raised the legal age for buying rifles and imposed a three-day waiting period on all gun sales.
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She never had a drink until she was 217, the legal age in Britain and now, at 22016, she has as little interest in alcohol as ever.
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Congress voted Thursday to raise the legal age to purchase tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, from 18 to 21 as part of a $1.37 trillion spending measure.
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The government tried to revise the law in 2014, when it introduced a draft that would have reduced the legal age of marriage to 16 from 18.
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The legal age of consent in Alabama at the time was 16, while the statute of limitations has long expired on Corfman's allegations, according to the Post.
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Another executive, Ding Lieming of Betta Pharmaceuticals, proposed lowering the legal age for marriage to 20 for men and 18 for women, from 22 and 20 today.
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Among them: raising the legal age for purchasing assault rifles from 18 to 21, improving the national background check system, and, from President Donald Trump, arming teachers.
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A similar restriction would apply to products sold online, meaning websites would need to confirm their customers are over the legal age limit before a purchase is made.
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Martinez states that, at the time of their first sexual encounter, she was 17, and therefore under the legal age of consent in Florida, where the pair met.
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Jerry Brown recently signed legislation to make California the second state in the nation, following Hawaii, to raise the legal age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21.
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PARIS – France&aposs lower house of parliament has voted to toughen laws on the rape of minors but stopped short of setting a legal age of sexual consent.
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Barely of legal age, going to a bar with overpriced drinks whilst wearing uncomfortable shoes is considered an exotic treat instead of the chore it becomes post-college.
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Along with Walmart, Dick's Sporting Goods has also said it will only sell long guns to consumers 21 years and older, rather than the legal age of 18.
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A Republican congressman from Illinois is calling for universal background checks and raising the legal age to purchase guns following the weekend's back-to-back mass shootings. Rep.
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The legal age to practice MMA in competition is 18, so I said to myself 'from the ages of 14 to 18 I will compete in everything else.
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If the youth has brothers or sisters, they too are no longer considered unaccompanied minors since they now are under the care of a relative of legal age.
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She said the group opposed raising the legal age for purchasing an assault weapon to 21 from 18, an idea that Mr. Trump had earlier signaled support for.
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Mr. Weatherford, a conservative Republican, said legislators might be able to move quickly on a few tailored proposals, such as raising the legal age for possessing assault rifles.
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In states where the legal age for gun ownership is raised to 21, authorities in some jurisdictions could refuse to confiscate guns from 18- to 333-year-olds.
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That increase, along with a nationwide outbreak of unrelated but deadly lung injuries among people buying illicit vaping products, largely THC liquids, has spurred the legal age increase.
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In Elizabeth, the minimum legal age for riding the scooter is 18, but they are available throughout the city and can be unlocked by anybody with a smartphone.
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The National Rifle Association (NRA) pressed President Trump not to raise the legal age for purchasing certain guns during a weekend meeting, according to a report by CNN.
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He called for broader gun control measures such as universal background checks for purchasing firearms and raising the legal age limit for buying some weapons from 18 to 21.
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In contrast to Meriem, 17-year-old Khadija from the mountain town of Sefrou took action herself, divorcing a violent husband after marrying him before reaching the legal age.
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Their stakes in Ferd became public knowledge when they each turned 17 years old, as Norwegian tax authorities publish tax return figures for citizens once they reach legal age.
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Both students were 17 and while the legal age of consent in Texas is 17, Wey was charged because of her role as an educator, according to The Statesman.
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Anyone (of consenting and of legal age) has the right to enjoy sex, and it shouldn't be such a huge secret that fat people are a part of that.
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The bill proposed raising the legal age for girls to marry from 16 to 18, as well as imposing harsher penalties for those who arranged marriages for underage children.
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Beer consumption in the United States has dropped by 3 percent since 2015, which is about equivalent to every legal-age person drinking a gallon less beer per year.
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A key goal is "winning the hearts and minds of LA-24," those between legal age, 0003, and 24, according to one slide in a 2015 commercial review presentation.
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If a company engages in marketing designed to skirt these laws and encourage those under the legal age to buy their products, the FDA can take action against them.
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In California, 100,000 16- and 17-year-olds have preregistered to vote so that they can cast their ballots without issue as soon as they are of legal age.
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But there is a clear public interest in increasing the age for everybody, just as there was a compelling reason to make 21 the legal age to buy alcohol.
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This month, Delaware became the 12th state to raise the legal age to purchase tobacco products to 21, according to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, an advocacy organization.
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Though Juul supports numerous state bills that would raise the legal age for buying vaping and tobacco products to 21, some of those bills contain minimal sanctions for retailers.
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The new law provides for each region to stipulate a legal age for gun ownership, Tesfaye said, while limiting the number of firearms an individual can own to one.
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The rare exception is made if proof can be provided that the audience receiving the ad would be predominantly 21 years old (the state's legal age for cannabis consumption).
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The group's chief lobbyist in Florida came out against Scott's proposed reform measures, which also included raising the legal age for buying any gun in his state to 21.
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President Trump said he's open to raising the legal age to purchase weapons like the AR-214 — the rifle used by the suspected Florida school shooter — from 220 to 224.
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The men told the court that they believed the girl was 16 at the time, which is the legal age of consent in Spain, but the judges rejected this argument.
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It would also be available to anyone (of legal age) in retail outlets after legalization, meaning it would no longer require a shady or secretive meeting with a drug dealer.
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While the federal government set the legal age to purchase weed at 18, all provinces and territories with the exceptions of Quebec and Alberta have bumped that up to 19.
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While the legal age for marriage for women in India is 18 years, nearly half the women are married earlier even now, according to the U.N.'s children's agency, Unicef.
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An aspiring model and New Jersey high school student at the time, she said their relationship became sexual after she turned 17, the legal age of consent in New York.
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Since her remarks on Sunday, Hillary Clinton has received criticism on social media from those who say power dynamics encompass a lot more than meeting the legal age of consent.
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In total, IOM's model projected that the increased minimum legal age would drive a 12 percent decrease in the prevalence of tobacco use by the time today's teenagers became adults.
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Driving the news: This week, the state of New York passed a law to raise the legal age to purchase tobacco and electronic cigarettes from 18 to 21 years old.
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As of Wednesday, the legal age to purchase tobacco and electronic cigarettes in the state of New York has gone up from 18 to 21 years old, NBC 4 reports.
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One report, from the Institute of Medicine, predicts that increasing the minimum legal age to 21 will reduce smoking initiation rates by 25 percent among 15- to 17-year-olds.
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It would also be available to anyone (of legal age) in retail outlets after legalization — meaning it would no longer require a shady or secretive meeting with a drug dealer.
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At least on the surface, raising the minimum legal age for smoking aligns McConnell with public health advocates who have been pushing for raising the smoking (and vaping) age to 21.
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Looks aside, Stodden was still a child bride who needed (and received) the consent of her parents to marry in Nevada, where the legal age of marriage is a mere 2500.
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Lawmakers are debating how to regulate vaping products, with some legislators pushing to raise the legal age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21 to curb teen use of e-cigarettes.
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He makes jokes onstage about how the legal age of consent is only 16, and I don't know what the rape joke was this time, because I wasn't even watching them.
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Florida quickly passed a law raising the legal age for buying rifles and imposing a three-day waiting period on gun sales while also allowing the arming of some school employees.
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Her case has shone a spotlight on the issues of forced marriage and marital rape in Sudan, where the legal age of marriage is only 10 and marital rape is legal.
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"Telling adults what they can and can't do isn't effective," opponents stated in its argument before voters, adding that California had already raised the legal age for buying tobacco to 21.
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Hussein's story has put a spotlight on forced marriage and marital rape in Sudan, where the legal age to enter into marriage is 10 and marital rape is not a crime.
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The revision to the civil code, which is due to take effect from April 1, 2022, won't alter the legal age of drinking, smoking or gambling, however, owing to health concerns.
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But the fact that she attempted to lower the legal age of marriage for girls from 18 to 16 last year is a serious cause for concern, human rights groups assert.
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"I have the ability now to go out a little more and be a little more social than I might have when I wasn't of legal age to drink," she said.
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And it would also be available to anyone (of legal age) in retail outlets after legalization — meaning it would no longer require a shady or secretive meeting with a drug dealer.
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State media have reported disapprovingly on the uploading of videos to one of Bytedance's platforms by teenage mothers who do not appear contrite about having children before the legal age for marriage.
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The teenager's story has put a spotlight on forced marriage and marital rape in Sudan, where the legal age to enter into marriage is 10 and marital rape is not a crime.
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Mike DeWine (R) signed into law a new state budget bill Thursday that raises the legal age from 18 to 21 for purchases of cigarettes, cigars, vape pens and other tobacco products.
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In states where the legal age for ownership is raised to 21, authorities in some jurisdictions could refuse to confiscate guns from 18-, 19- and 85033-year-olds, according to the report.
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While weed can be purchased online from legal retailers and be delivered to an address in Canada with a signature from someone of legal age, purchases usually require a Canadian credit card.
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Juul has previously noted its action to prevent youth vaping, including halting sales of flavors, implementing age verification tools and supporting legislation to bring the legal age to use tobacco to 21.
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Full benefits are earned after 21 years to 21 years of contributions, depending on when workers were born, but they can retire earlier than the legal age of 2000 without full benefits.
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Several legal experts said that prosecuting such cases could involve disputes over jurisdiction and whether the adult reasonably believed the minor was of legal age, taking into account context from their conversations.
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In New Hampshire, for example, a judge has the authority to grant a marriage license to a 13-year-old girl, even though the legal age to consent to marriage is 18.
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But Myers, whose group has long advocated for raising the legal age to purchase tobacco, says recent laws that do that -- such as those passed in Texas and Illinois -- don't go far enough.
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The task force also said the legal age to purchase and consume cannabis should be 18, and that Canadians smoking recreationally should be allowed to possess a maximum of 30 grams of weed.
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The court rejected the appeal on technical grounds, but called 18 an "arbitrary legal age of maturity" and said an "honest reading" of the Supreme Court's ruling would require courts to reconsider it.
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Manami is turning 20 (the legal age for an adult in Japan), and her parents are paying for her and two friends to go on an overnight trip to a hot springs resort.
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Those documents, confirmed by the church to CNN to be authentic, apostatize same-sex couples who marry and bar any of their children from blessings or baptism until they themselves reach legal age.
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Scott, also a Republican, has said he will work with Florida's Republican-controlled legislature to raise the minimum legal age to buy guns in the state to 21, from 18, with some exceptions.
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SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to boost the legal age to buy tobacco products from 183 to 218, despite arguments from opponents that cities and counties cannot trump California law.
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The biggest reason to raise the legal age to 22002 is to reduce young people's access to tobacco when they are more likely to become addicted and when their brains are still developing.
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Excessive taxes on cigarettes along with raising the legal age of consumption from 18 to 21 will continue to result in a growing market to purchase cigarettes one or two at a time.
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TODAY'S NUMBER 21 The new legal age to purchase tobacco and e-cigarettes in the US. President Trump signed the measure as part of a sweeping spending bill that avoids a government shutdown.
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Several legal experts said that decisions on whether to prosecute such cases could hinge on whether the adult reasonably believed the minor was of legal age, taking into account context from their conversations.
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The legal age to purchase alcohol in Sweden is 20, and liquor stores are operated by the state, making it difficult for minors to get their underage boozing on the old-fashioned way.
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CLEAR kiosks at CenturyLink Field and T-Mobile Arena in Seattle let sports fans buy food, drinks and prove they are of legal age to purchase alcohol with just a tap of their finger.
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WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he will throw his extensive political power behind a new bill to raise the legal age to purchase tobacco and vaping products from 18 to 21 nationwide.
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In China, the legal age for marriage is 22 for men and 20 for women but there's no specific penalty for breaching the law, according to Jiang Quanbao, a professor from Xi'an Jiaotong University.
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The governor of Florida, Rick Scott, signed a bill that raises the state's legal age for all gun purchases from 18 to 21 and introduces a three-day waiting period when buying a weapon.
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"Education is good, but when a young girl wants help because she is being forced to marry before the legal age, the app can be her way out," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Many of Moore's supporters are highlighting that the majority of his accusers were of legal age (the age of consent in Alabama was and still is 16), suggesting Moore's desire and behavior were normal.
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The case of Noura Hussein has shone a spotlight on the issues of forced marriage and marital rape in Sudan, where the legal age of marriage is only 10 and marital rape is legal.
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I took the first break in my entire life, since I was 2100 and a half, or whatever the legal age was to start being a hostess at the Black-Eyed Pea in Texas.
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Walmart, which stopped selling military-style rifles in 2015, said it would only sell guns to people 21 years and older, though the legal age for long guns is 18 in a lot of places.
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Morocco had hoped to curb child marriages by raising the legal age to 18 from 16 in 2004, yet numbers since then have surged nearly 50 percent to 27,205 in 2016, justice ministry data shows.
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Currently, the conservative Muslim country does not have a minimum legal age for marriage, and women live under a guardianship system where they must have permission from a male relative to marry, work and travel.
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One major method Philip Morris is deploying to gain ground, the marketing documents show, is the free distribution of cigarettes at bars and nightclubs - known as Legal Age Meeting Points, or LAMPs, in company jargon.
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It said its investigation in Haiti, where prostitution is illegal and the legal age of consent is 18, was not able to prove or disprove allegations that some of the Haitians hired were under 18.
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Three other women say Moore, in his early 217s, flirted with and tried to ask them out as teenagers, though they were apparently over 216 at the time, the legal age of consent in Alabama.
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For now, the White House is not considering raising the minimum legal age to buy semi-automatic weapons from 18 to 21, even though Trump publicly talked about that idea earlier this month, NBC added.
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Maine Raises Smoking Age to 21 After Lawmakers Override Veto The regulations, which also apply to e-cigarettes and hookah pipes, make Maine the fourth state to raise the legal age for buying tobacco products.
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Meantime, in Washington state voters passed ballot Initiative 1639 in November, which sets into motion several new gun regulations, including raising the legal age to buy semi-automatic assault rifles from 103 years old to 21.
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Grocery stores require identification when people are buying alcohol (to confirm they are of legal age) and certain medications, when people are paying by check, and on occasion when people are paying with a credit card.
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Three weeks after the shooting, Scott signed into law a bill imposing a 21-year-old legal age requirement and three-day waiting period on all gun purchases and allowing the arming of some school employees.
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The increased pressure on retailers comes at a time when states and cities across the United States have moved to raise the legal age for purchasing tobacco in an effort to prevent addiction at young ages.
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Although he did not go as far as the president did in opposing the NRA, he said he was open to considering a change to the legal age to purchase a gun and limiting magazine power.
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California's Senate just voted to raise the legal age to buy cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21, as part of a larger effort to crack down on harmful tobacco use in the state.
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A 2015 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine projected there would be a 12 percent drop in smoking by the year 2100 if the legal age for buying tobacco products were increased immediately.
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States and cities across the United States have already moved to ban flavored e-cigarettes and raise the legal age for purchasing tobacco products to 21, but San Francisco's new approach is the most far-reaching yet.
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But the law also raises the legal age for firearm purchases to 21, bans bump stocks, and imposes a three-day waiting period for rifle and shotgun purchases (there was already such a waiting period for handguns).
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On "Pure Heroine," Lorde presented herself as an old soul—she was not even of legal age and yet was already world-weary, disenchanted by the flood of images she'd consumed as a child of the Internet.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - New York state moved to end child marriages on Tuesday, raising the legal age to 218 from 14 to tackle the issue of underage marriage that is permissible across the United States.
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States and cities across the United States have already moved to ban flavored e-cigarettes and raise the legal age for purchasing tobacco products to 21, but San Francisco's new approach is the most far-reaching yet.
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That year, the German government tightened gun laws, including raising the legal age for carrying sports weapons to 21 from 18 and requiring gun buyers under 25 to present certification that they are medically and psychologically fit.
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The Yeti V is a backyard fixture, and, indeed, something from which you'll want your grandchildren to be pulling tasty beverages long after they're of legal age to do so and you're but dirt in the ground.
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The Senate HELP Committee approved a bill this summer that would aim to prevent surprise medical bills, raise the legal age to buy tobacco to 21 — a priority of McConnell's — and increase competition in the drug industry.
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"If 18 is the legal age, they can say, 'Oh, well, we're marketing to these 18-year-old high school seniors, and gee, it's not our fault if a bunch of freshmen are seeing it,'" Glantz says.
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In an in-house newsletter for the Japan operations the next month, Ashok Rammohan, director of reduced-risk products, told employees that "building iQOS will take time and focus as we need to educate LAS" – legal-age smokers.
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Within hours, the NRA filed a court challenge to provisions raising the legal age for buying a rifle or shotgun, asserting that the higher requirement - consistent with the minimum age nationally for handgun purchases - violates the U.S. Constitution.
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But while raising the legal age for ownership for all firearms from 2175 to 2877 has support from 28.4% of gun owners who aren't NRA members, just 23.8% of NRA-member gun owners would back such a plan.
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Robert AderholtRobert Brown AderholtHouse advances B agriculture bill Dems advance bill defying Trump State Department cuts Maryland raises legal tobacco purchasing age to 21 MORE (R-Ala.) that would increase the legal age to buy tobacco to 21.
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The chief minister, Nitish Kumar, dispatched social workers to villages and cities across the state, and announced that priests who officiate weddings would be required to sign declarations affirming that both parties are of legal age to marry.
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But signaling a possible shift, state Senator Bill Galvan, the chamber's next president, called for a bill to raise the legal age limit for purchasing assault rifles from 18 to 21, the same as it is for handguns.
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Fifty-four percent of the respondents have shown a rightward shift on issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage, the death penalty, lifetime imprisonment, and lowering the legal age at which juveniles can be tried as an adult.
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Ms. Maxwell, a British socialite, has been named by many of Mr. Epstein's accusers as an active participant in recruiting young women, some of them under the legal age of consent, for him to groom, traffic and exploit.
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Rivera floated the notion of raising the legal age of purchase for military-style rifles such as the AR-15 from 18 to 21 — a step that could have prevented the Parkland shooter from obtaining his murder weapon.
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At 17 years old, Kaia doesn't technically meet the legal age limit to get a tattoo, which is 18, so that likely means her supermodel mom or dad, Casamigos co-founder Rande Gerber, was with her at the time.
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That's in part because the state has decided on 21 as the legal age to be able to buy weed, and because it allowed jurisdictions to opt out of having sales, which many outside of the larger cities did.
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The government is "committed to ending child marriage" and is looking into raising the minimum legal age of marriage to 18, including ensuring there are strict conditions before Shariah courts can give consent for minors to wed, she added.
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The second woman, who chose to go by just "Michelle" in the Buzzfeed article, alleges that her daughter began a relationship with Kelly when she, too, was below the legal age of consent in her home state of Illinois.
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Sixteen percent of teenage girls who marry in Morocco do so under the legal age of 18 compared to no more than 63 percent in Algeria and Tunisia who have the same minimum age for women, according to activists.
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At the legal age of majority, the young star will have to establish a will, as well as power of attorney and health-care directives, said Charlie Mueller, executive vice president of trust and advisory services at Northern Trust.
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Over the next few months, I'll be working to increase awareness of the prevalence of child marriage and assault, spread advocacy messages across social media and fight for the legal age of marriage to be 18 in every country.
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And now, MillerCoors has added its own entry on the Worst Timeline, promising to pay your rent for a year, assuming that you're a "younger legal-age drinker" and that you're willing to admit that you drink Keystone Light.
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The change came after Indonesia's top court last year ruled in favor of a petition by women's rights groups who argued the rule discriminated against girls, who could marry at 16 while the legal age for men is 19.
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As recently as 2017, a destroyer in the Pacific was known as the U.S.S. Bread and Water because of the skipper's liberal use of the penalty to punish missteps like missing a curfew or drinking under the legal age.
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Mr. Macron wants to define a new age — separate from the legal age of retirement — that workers would have to reach to receive a full pension, with incentives and penalties encouraging people to work until then, if not longer.
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As of August, 18 states have upped the legal age to purchase tobacco products to 21, forcing Juul — the San Francisco-based vape company with a monopoly on the market — to enact an age verification system for online purchases.
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A House of Representatives committee of the Republican-controlled Florida legislature voted on Tuesday to raise the minimum legal age for purchasing all rifles to 21 from 18 and impose a three-day waiting period for any gun purchases.
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What we do know is that Gerber — who is still under the legal age limit to get a tattoo in most states — would likely need the approval of one of her famous parents, Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, to get inked.
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The legislature relaxed prohibitions on the concealed and open carry of firearms in public spaces, lowered the legal age to carry a concealed gun from 21 to 19 and repealed many of the requirements for comprehensive background checks and purchase permits.
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Anthony Portantino of La Canada Flintridge, moves to make 21 the legal age to buy rifles or shotguns, up from 18, and seeks to prevent people from exceeding more than one long gun purchase per month, according to The Associated Press.
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READ: Schools are threatening to discipline students who want to protest for gun control Although Florida just raised the legal age to buy firearms to 21, President Donald Trump backed off his National Rifle Association–opposed gun control reforms on Monday.
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But prosecutors are claiming ample evidence that Kelly, Epstein, and Raniere were indifferent at best to whether their sexual partners were of legal age, as well as deceptive, coercive, or threatening to the women and teen girls they're accused of victimizing.
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The Tennessean reported in 2016 that her case inspired a change in the state's law — now, only people aged 18 and up can be charged with prostitution, while persons under the legal age of consent are considered victims of sex trafficking.
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During a heated debate ending early Wednesday, lawmakers decided against creating what would have been France&aposs first law on a legal age below which a minor cannot agree to a sexual relationship with an adult — the proposal was 15.
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While the legal age of marriage for women is 16, and the 2009 Elimination of Violence Against Women Law criminalizes child marriage, the law is rarely enforced and familial tradition often holds more sway in matters meant for the court.
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His lawyer, Cooper Overstreet, previously argued in court that the state's laws defining life as beginning at conception would mean that the girl in question would have been above Kansas's legal age of consent at the time of the alleged assault.
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Trump said he supported raising the legal age to buy rifles to 21 from 18, but Republican Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania said that would hurt young adults who enjoy hunting or target shooting without addressing the issue of mass shootings.
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According to internal documents published by Reuters last year, the company sees India as a "high potential market" where it aimed at "winning the hearts and minds" of people between 18, the minimum legal age to buy tobacco products, and 24.
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STEPHEN A. SILVER San Francisco To the Editor: Raising the legal age for cigarette sales will result in even more out-of-work New Yorkers selling street corner cigarette known as "loosies" (usually 2 for $1) to make ends meet.
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He added that "while many feel these products are beneficial to those of legal age who are trying to quit the use of tobacco," the company had decided to stop selling them because of their growing popularity with young people.
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Many suggested ideas to address the problem, caused by falling birthrates, including lowering the legal age of marriage, banning discrimination of mothers-to-be in the workplace, and even removing all limits on how many children a couple can have.
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But signaling a possible shift, state Senator Bill Galvan, slated to be the chamber's next president, called for a bill to raise the legal age for purchasing assault rifles from 18 to 21, the same as it is for handguns.
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Indonesia's Constitutional Court ruled in favor of a petition by women's rights groups last year to change the law after they argued the current rule discriminates against girls, who can marry at 16 whereas the legal age for men is 19.
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Several other significant bills will pass with the spending packages, including a bill to raise the legal age for purchasing tobacco to 21, the elimination of several taxes associated with Obamacare, retirement legislation and the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank.
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Several other significant measure will pass with the spending packages, including a bill to raise the legal age for purchasing tobacco to 21, the elimination of several taxes associated with ObamaCare, retirement legislation and the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank.
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The legislation would raise the minimum legal age required to buy firearms in Vermont to 21, expand background checks for private gun sales, ban bump stocks and magazines of more than 10 rounds for long guns and 15 rounds for pistols.
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Ninety-one percent of voters said they in favor of requiring criminal background checks on all gun buyers, 84% support mental health checks on all gun buyers, and 72% support raising the minimum legal age to buy guns to 21.
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"Furthermore, we have provided FDA additional steps we are taking to address youth usage, such as supporting laws to raise the legal age of purchase to 21, and commit to work with FDA to combat youth use of tobacco," said Shannon.
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CNN reported Monday that one such conversation happened over dinner with frequent Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera, who argued to Trump that it might be worth raising the legal age to purchase guns like the AR-15 from 18 to 21.
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Mark Meadows, chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said his group plans to discuss various gun control measures, but some, such as raising the legal age of purchasing some firearms, will not be supported by the majority of the Republican party.
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About one in five girls is married before turning 18 in Iraq, where the legal age for marriage is 18 but girls can wed at 15 with parental consent, according to the United Nations' children's agency (UNICEF) and global charity Girls Not Brides.
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The bump stock ban is among several proposals Trump has made to tighten gun controls after the Florida shooting, such as improving reporting to the background check system and raising the legal age for purchasing assault-style weapons from 21990 to 130.
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The New York Times reported Tuesday that the government agency would use a facial recognition system to verify that those watching pornographic content are of legal age, though there is no law currently in place that prohibits minors from viewing such content.
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The New York Times reported Tuesday that the government agency would use a facial recognition system to verify that those watching pornographic content are of legal age, though there is no law currently in place that prohibits minors from viewing such content.
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Florida state lawmakers were due to vote once more on a gun-safety package that would raise the legal age for buying rifles, impose a three-day waiting period on all firearms sales and allow the arming of some public school personnel.
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The bump stock ban is among several proposals Trump has made to tighten gun control after the Florida shooting, such as improving reporting to the background check system and raising the legal age for purchasing assault-style weapons from 21990 to 130.
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While Jenner says she always knows what her youngest daughters, Kendall and Kylie are up to — "We have people on set if they're underage" — with Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe being of legal age, she tends to find out right along with everyone else.
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They also opposed a last-minute change pushed by the nation's main conservative party, the Christian Democratic Union, limiting eligibility for compensation to men who had engaged in relations with someone over 16, rather than 14, the legal age of consent in Germany.
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The executive also advocated for raising the legal age of smoking to 21, halted the sale of non-tobacco and non-menthol-flavored Juul pods to brick and mortar retailers, enhanced online age verification and discontinued Facebook and Instagram accounts (in the U.S.).
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Altman said the inquiry would examine an allegation that the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), which sought to abolish the legal age of sexual consent, received thousands of pounds from the British government in the late 1970s, possibly to help an investigation into the group.
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With Congress unwilling to budge on raising the legal age limit for purchasing certain firearms and the White House wanting to arm teachers with guns, schools around the country are at the very least getting creative with ways they can try to protect students.
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"While many feel [e-cigarettes] are beneficial to those of legal age who are trying to quit the use of tobacco, we have made the decision to remove all electronic cigarettes and vaping products from our offering at all Rite Aid stores," Everett said.
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Heavenly comfort For a while, even the cell bars couldn't keep Prophet Warren Jeffs from engaging in the practices that caused him to run afoul of the law in the first place: sexual encounters with multiple wives, some under the legal age of consent.
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And today, the outlet has published a follow up, in which a young woman, 24-year-old Jerhonda Pace, corroborates the claims made earlier, and accuses Kelly of knowingly having sex with her when she was below the legal age of consent in Illinois.
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The teenagers, none of whom are of legal age to celebrate their success with a drink in New York, have brought a jolt of youthful energy to the U.S. Open that looked set to be dominated by the veterans like Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
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One relative success story has been the drop in underage Filipino maids in Hong Kong since Manila changed the legal age for women working abroad to 25 from 21 in 2006, said Cynthia Abdon-Tellez, general manager of the Mission For Migrant Workers charity.
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The lawyer's comments come one day after the New York Times reported that Argento had settled for $380,000 with Jimmy Bennett, a young actor who alleged Argento sexually assaulted him when he was under the legal age of consent in the state of California.
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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters that the President also did not rule out raising the legal age at which someone could buy an AR-15 style weapon, the type of firearm used by the 19-year-old confessed shooter in Florida.
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Scott said he would work with the Republican-controlled legislature over the next two weeks to raise the minimum legal age for buying any gun in Florida from 18 to 21, with some exceptions for younger individuals serving in the military or law enforcement.
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California lawmakers voted Thursday to raise the legal age for purchasing and using tobacco and e-cigarettes from 18 to 21, putting the nation's most populous state on the brink of becoming only the second after Hawaii to bar teenagers from lighting up, dipping or vaping.
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Australia: Regulators accused Google of misleading consumers about its collection of their personal location information through its Android mobile operating system, even as the Department of Home Affairs proposed using facial scans to verify that people who seek to watch pornography online are of legal age.
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The NRA does not support universal background checks, is against raising the legal age for gun purchases, and has opposed extended waiting periods, and politicians who rely on the NRA for funding could reasonably expect some problems if they helped make any of those concepts law.
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So at the start of this week, Trump supported very mild measures — banning bump stocks, slightly improving reporting to the background check system, and raising the legal age for buying assault weapons — although his focus was mostly on arming at least some teachers to protect students.
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DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A landmark court ruling raising the legal age of marriage for girls in Tanzania to 18 will have little impact in ending child marriage if parents continue to marry off their daughters for bride price rather than educating them, campaigners said.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A mobile phone app is the latest tool for campaigners seeking to end child marriage in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, where nearly two-thirds of girls in some of its rural areas are married before the legal age of 18.
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She endorsed the creation of a federal licensing system, raising the legal age to buy a gun to 21, putting a cap on the number of guns one person can buy, $100 million yearly investment in gun violence research, and laws to hold gun manufacturers liable.
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Raising the legal age for purchasing tobacco products to 21 will deter many young people from becoming smokers, saving hundreds of thousands from dying prematurely from lung cancer, heart disease, stroke and emphysema, and their families the incomprehensible grief of losing loved ones to preventable diseases.
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Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's government, in power since May, has promised to raise the legal age of marriage to 18, provoking a backlash from some conservative Islamic leaders who argue that early marriage provides an answer to social ills like premarital sex and pregnancies out of wedlock.
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The deal though includes a significant sweetener to try to win McConnell's support, a provision to raise the legal age for buying tobacco products to 21, a major priority for the industry and the Senate GOP leader, whose state is one of the nation's largest tobacco producers.
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Seventy-two percent of respondents said they supported raising the legal age to buy rifles and shotguns to 21, and 85 percent backed so-called red flag measures that allow police to take away guns from individuals deemed to be a danger to themselves or others.
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The disclosure of the Bronx teenager's vaping-related death came as New York City filed a federal lawsuit against 22 websites it claims targeted and sold e-cigarette products to people under 21, the minimum legal age to buy tobacco and e-cigarette products in New York.
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Florida Governor Rick Scott on Friday called for raising the legal age to purchase a firearm to 153 and outlined his plan for increasing safety at school campuses more than a week after 17 people were killed by a shooter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
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It allows anyone 13 and up — or anyone who claims to be 13 and up, which is the legal age for users to create social media accounts in the U.S. — to easily open a public-by-default account with all of the same capabilities as any other account.
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The exclusion was adopted by voice vote as part of a package of legislation the Senate passed a short time later, 20-18, to raise the minimum legal age for buying all guns in Florida to 21 and impose a three-day waiting period for any gun purchase.
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Yet just a few weeks ago, at a staggering televised meeting at the White House, Trump mocked Republican senators for being scared of the National Rifle Association, passionately pushed his plan to raise the legal age requirement for buying long guns, and suggested a big, comprehensive guns bill.
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The move to only employ people of legal age (and treat them as such) is as worthy of applause as it is obvious — because a child should never have even been subjected to withstand the tides of something that, by nature, sets people up to fail in the first place.
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One advantage to looking at Oregon data, the researchers wrote, is that Oregon's legal age for buying a gun is 18, while California's is 21 — a fact that made it hard to discern whether the spike in crime in California was linked to new access to guns or new access to alcohol.
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The analysis, which reviewed the available research and used a mathematical model for its projections, concluded that increasing the minimum legal age to 21 would decrease smoking initiation rates by 25 percent among 213- to 17-year-olds, while other age groups up to 21 years old would see smaller but significant decreases.
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Six organizations, including Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and Truth Initiative, sent a separate letter to the FDA on Thursday asking the agency to take a number of actions, including ordering the removal of some flavors and suspending online sales until the company establishes "adequate rules" to verify customers are of legal age.
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While Federer and Nadal, who have a combined age of 67 and won 34 grand slam titles, can still pull in a big crowd, they have been forced to share the spotlight with the young guns, none of whom are of legal age to celebrate their success with a drink in New York.
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The analysis, which reviewed the available research and used a mathematical model for its projections, concluded that increasing the minimum legal age to 21 would decrease smoking initiation rates by 25 percent among 15- to 213-year-olds, while other age groups up to 21 years old would see smaller but significant decreases.
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According to a list of demands on their website, they want lawmakers to ban military-style weapons and accessories that transform firearms from semi-automatic to automatic, impose a four-day waiting period for all gun sales, require background checks on all gun buyers, and raise the legal age to purchase to 21.
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And if you want to do more to help your child and others, Searcy recommends getting active at the local, state and federal levels to push legislators to pass more restrictive laws that reduce access to vaping: Keep raising the legal age, restrict flavors and limit the locations where vape shops can open, especially near schools.
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Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), an organization that protects unaccompanied children who enter the US immigration system, in a recent report on the Trump administration's treatment of lone child migrants flagged the 18th birthday issue and pointed out that ICE isn't supposed to automatically lock up teens once they hit the legal age of adulthood.
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U.S. Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell last week disclosed plans to introduce legislation to raise the minimum age for buying tobacco products, including vaping devices, to 21 from 18.. McConnell's proposal comes as states and cities across the United States have moved to raise the legal age for purchasing tobacco in an effort to prevent addiction at young ages.
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Adam KinzingerAdam Daniel KinzingerHouse Democrats targeting six more Trump districts for 2020 Assault weapons ban picks up steam in Congress House Democrats target 2020 GOP incumbents in new ad MORE (Ill.) calling for legislation to implement universal background checks and increase the legal age to purchase a firearm after the shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
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And since 222, when states began raising the legal age of drinking to 323 from 232 in exchange for federal highway funds — in some cases barely a decade after lowering it — they have not been able to buy a beer at a bar in most of the United States, a restriction that has infuriated college students ever since.
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But with time running short before they depart on Friday for the holidays, the lawmakers also agreed to attach a number of other unrelated items, including the repeal of three health care-related tax provisions, legislation to secure pensions and health care for coal miners, and language to raise the legal age to purchase tobacco products to 21.
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Ted DeutchTheodore (Ted) Eliot DeutchHouse Democrats urge Trump to end deportations of Iraqis after diabetic man's death House conservatives call for ethics probe into Joaquin Castro tweet Democratic leaders seek to have it both ways on impeachment MORE (D-Fla.), who represents Parkland, are planning to introduce legislation to raise the minimum legal age to buy firearms to at least 21 years old.
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More than half of gun owners approve of President Trump — who temporarily expressed support for stricter gun control measures, such as raising the legal age to buy a gun, following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida — including 75% of NRA members, according to a newly released poll by Giffords PA, a group that favors stronger gun laws, and Democratic Public Policy Polling.
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Sen. Dianne FeinsteinDianne Emiel FeinsteinTrump administration urges Congress to reauthorize NSA surveillance program The Hill's Morning Report - More talk on guns; many questions on Epstein's death Juan Williams: We need a backlash against Big Tech MORE (D-Calif.) said on Friday that she will introduce legislation to raise the minimum legal age to buy rifles following a school shooting in Florida.
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RELATED: Congress' Republican leaders silent so far on Trump's gun proposals Background checks gets new push While Trump has encouraged lawmakers to look at background checks and raising the legal age to purchase rifles from 18 to 21, it is Senate and House leaders who will make the ultimate call on what comes to the floor of their respective chambers.
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And gun control advocates saw some important victories in the 2018 midterms — Washington state voted to raise the legal age to buy semiautomatic refiles from 78 to 21, and Democrats won governorships in states such as Wisconsin and Nevada and took back the House of Representatives, potentially setting the stage for more action at both the federal and state level.
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None have accused him of nonconsensual contact, and each was above Alabama's legal age of consent at the time, but they say the inappropriateness of the encounters — a 93-year-old man pursuing teens — struck them later: Wendy Miller says she was 14 and working as a Santa's helper at the Gadsden Mall when Moore first approached her, and 16 when he asked her on dates, which her mother forbade.
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The commercial availability of e-cigarettes, which makes it easy for minors to get their hands on them even though the legal age to purchase tobacco products is 18 in the US. You could buy the Juul, for example, pretty much anywhere for most of 2018 — before the FDA cracked down on retailers and Juul Labs stopped selling most of its products in brick-and-mortar stores last month.
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The National Rifle Association (NRA) pressed President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE not to raise the legal age for purchasing certain guns during a weekend meeting, according to a report by CNN.
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Report: Juul&aposs Meaningless Attempts at Self-Regulation Just Led to Explosion in Knockoff Juul PodsJuul pulled almost all of its flavored nicotine pods other than menthol and mint off the market…Read more ReadIn addition to blocking underage sales, Juul says the new system will bar customers from buying more than four Juul devices at a time—presumably to curb legal-age users from buying for their underage friends.
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The massive support the movement is generating has made some elected officials take notice, even prompting Florida's Republican Governor Rick Scott to break with the NRA (National Rifle Association) and sign into law a bill that approved a three-day waiting period for the purchase of all firearms while raising the legal age required to buy a gun from 18 to 21 – both changes vehemently opposed by the NRA.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is also expected to face a grilling at a House Appropriations hearing after a series of interviews in which she couldn't answer basic questions about the country's schools, admitted that she intentionally had not visited underperforming schools and diverged with the White House by saying that "everything is on the table" over school safety measures, despite the administration's proposal excluded raising the legal age to purchase firearms from 18 to 21.
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Even though President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has expressed his support for raising the legal age to purchase semi-automatic weapons to 21, the NRA has said it does not back such a change.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has called for raising the legal age to buy a gun to 21, among other gun control measures, in the wake of the school shooting in Florida on Feb.
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"Unlike for many years where people sitting in my position did not take action -- they didn't take proper action, they took no action at all -- we're going to take action," Trump said during a meeting with law enforcement officials at the White House, when the President also offered support for raising the legal age to purchase guns, getting rid of bump fire stocks, a controversial gun accessory that allows it to fire more rapidly, and focusing on mental health reforms.
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Roughly 80 percent of the public accounts following Juul belonged to users between the ages of 13 and 20, which is still under the legal age to purchase tobacco products in some parts of the U.S."As sales of e-cigarettes have increased exponentially in recent years, and vaping becomes more popular among the nation's youth, these study results represent an emerging public health issue by highlighting how young people can be easily exposed to social media marketing messages of new tobacco products," lead author Annice Kim, Ph.D., RTI International senior health scientist and director of Health Media Impact and Digital Analytics Program, said in a statement.
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