Less fire if you can’t smoke till you’re 21?

21 May 2014

myPaper, 21 May 2014 - Health Promotion Board (HPB) is studying New York’s recent move to raise the legal age for purchasing cigarettes from 18 to 21. It will assess whether to introduce a similar measure here. Paul Oh, Senior Lecturer of SP’s Diploma in Nutrition, Health and Wellness supports this idea, and said that raising the legal smoking age would make it harder to lay their hands on cigarettes.