Bush administration when Congress enacted the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Reorganization Act, whose Synar Amendment forced states to create their own laws to have a minimum age of 18 to purchase tobacco or else lose funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
CDC, 2018)
And, apparently, its having a comeback
There is no safe tobacco product
In my early 20s, my favorite movie theater was a once-grand, crumbling landmark where you almost never had to search out a seat
History is on your side, public health is on your side." Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP civil rights group, supports the ban, and called for the White House to "focus on the science, the research and the health outcomes of African Americans" by enacting it