Health Minister’s call to raise legal smoking age to 21 receives cloudy reviews
KAMLOOPS — It’s the number-one preventable form of death in B.C.
“You look at cancer, heart disease, other vascular strokes, they’re all related to smoking,” said BC Health Minister Terry Lake.
Earlier this week Lake tweeted the idea of raising the minimum legal smoking age in B.C from 19 to 21.
According to Lake, Hawaii, California, and more than 120 jurisdictions in the United States have already made the move.