The Tobacco 21 Law is a nationwide effort to get the legal smoking age raised from 18 to 21. Several counties in New York have already approved the law, and now, the Hudson Valley has seen its first county take that step.
More than a third of educational institutions in New York are now smoke-free or tobacco-free and Dutchess Community College is about to be added to that list.
E-cigarettes have become an incredibly hot topic over the past couple of years. On one hand, they're seen as a healthy alternative to smoking (though, to be fair what isn't a healthy alternative to smoking?. On the other, they're viewed as uncharted terrain; I mean, it wasn't discovered just how bad for you smoking cigarettes is until many years after they'd become a staple accessory for people al