{"id":20188,"date":"2020-01-22T18:14:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T23:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=20188"},"modified":"2020-01-22T18:14:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T23:14:22","slug":"vaping-news-fda-tobacco-21-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/20188","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: FDA [Tobacco 21 Enforcement]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Food and Drug Administration posted on its website in late December: \u201cIt is now illegal for a retailer to sell any tobacco product \u2014 including cigarettes, cigars and e-cigarettes \u2014 to anyone under 21.\u201d While the implementation date of the federal law is no longer in doubt, the question of who will or can enforce the law remains more of a puzzle. Because it\u2019s a federal law, local law enforcement generally wouldn\u2019t be the enforcers. Some police departments have received an informational document called Federal Tobacco 21: The Law of the Land that states: \u201cFDA will oversee enforcement of the minimum legal sales age at 21.\u201d What exactly that enforcement will look like remains unknown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/community-voices\/2020\/01\/federal-tobacco-law-needs-state-backup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal tobacco law needs state backup<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"VAPING%20NEWS%3A%20FDA%20%5BTobacco%2021%20Enforcement%5D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Food and Drug Administration posted on its website in late December: \u201cIt is now illegal for a retailer to sell any tobacco product \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaping-news","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20189,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20188\/revisions\/20189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}