{"id":8026,"date":"2016-01-29T15:14:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T23:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/state-house-panel-passes-bill-to-raise-smoking-age-to-21\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T05:25:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T12:25:31","slug":"state-house-panel-passes-bill-to-raise-smoking-age-to-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/state-house-panel-passes-bill-to-raise-smoking-age-to-21\/","title":{"rendered":"State House panel passes bill to raise smoking age to 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>State Attorney General Bob Ferguson\u2019s agency-request bill to raise the smoking age to 21 from 18 passed the House Health Care &amp; Wellness Committee in a bipartisan 9-3 vote on Friday in Olympia.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cThis legislation will literally save lives,\u201d said Ferguson in a media release. \u201cI thank legislators from both parties for standing with me to protect Washington youth from a life of addiction and tobacco-related health problems. The momentum for this common-sense reform is building.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Last week, Ferguson held a press conference, where he was joined by Secretary of Health John Weisman, legislative co-sponsors and numerous other supporters to announce a poll showing two-thirds of Washingtonians support raising the sale age for tobacco and vapor products to 21. Stuart Elway conducted the poll, commissioned by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><a title=\"bill\" href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/WA\/text\/HB2313\/id\/1280539\" target=\"_self\">House Bill 2313,<\/a> sponsored by Rep. Tina Orwall (D-Des Moines), will now head to the House Finance Committee.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The companion Senate bill, SB 6157, sponsored by Sen. Mark Miloscia (R-Federal Way), is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Commerce &amp; Labor Committee on Monday, Feb. 1 at 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Voting for the bill were Reps. Eileen Cody (D-Seattle), Judy Clibborn (D-Mercer Island), Richard Debolt (R-Chehalis), Laurie Jinkins (D-Tacoma), Norm Johnson (R-Yakima), June Robinson (D-Everett), Shelly Short (R-Addy), Steve Tharinger (D-Sequim) and Kevin Van De Wege (D-Sequim).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Michelle Caldier (R-Port Orchard), Jim Moeller (D-Vancouver)\u00a0 and Joe Smick (R-Colfax) voted against the bill.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Attorney General Bob Ferguson\u2019s agency-request bill to raise the smoking age to 21 from 18 passed the House Health Care &amp; Wellness Committee in a bipartisan 9-3 vote on Friday in Olympia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":8027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8026"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}