Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican who co-sponsored a bill to raise the purchasing age limit for traditional and e-cigarettes from 18 to 21, said the changes were not a zero-sum choice between health and agriculture
Here is an interesting, more indepth, treatment of the topic
Everyones journey must start somewhere
Thousands of farmers staged the protest claiming that the bill which would ban cigarette advertising and sponsorship, prohibit smoking in public, and add graphic images to packaging would lead to massive job losses, The Associated Press reports
Tensions escalated when witnesses alleged that private bouncers accompanying the accused attempted to push back the crowd and behaved aggressively
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