Isn’t Choice Better Than Force?
MINOT, N.D. — Congress seems set to pass a law raising the age for legal tobacco use to 21. Here in...
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Turns Out the Anti-Vaping Hysteria Was Unwarranted
In recent weeks - amid a drip-drip-drip of stories about illnesses and, tragically, deaths among users of vaping products -...
Raising the Smoking Age Is a Dumb Way to Address Teen Smoking When So Many Teens Are Already Ignoring the Law
In Minnesota many local governments are joining a national trend toward raising the age for tobacco use to 21. In...
Senate Committee Adopts Hog House Amending Turning Vaping Flavor Ban Into a Tax
When HB1477, introduced by Alisa Mitskog (D-Wahpeton), was passed by the House it was a simple ban on selling flavored...
Legislation Would Raise North Dakota’s Tobacco Age to 19, but Exempts Active Military Members
Currently North Dakota bans tobacco use for minors (vaping is included as tobacco use, even though it's a much different...
Vaping Is Not the Same as Tobacco Use and Treating It That Way Would Be a Mistake
"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." That saying is called the Shirky Principle,...
Bill Would Make Vaping and Tobacco Use Illegal for Adults up to Age 19
When you turn 18 you're generally considered an adult under the law, meaning you can do all sorts of stuff...
Is the Fight to Keep BreatheND About Public Health or Big Salaries for Bureaucrats?
North Dakota needs to find ways to save money. In his final budget address to the Legislature in December former...
Data Shows Vaping Is Not Leading Kids to Smoking
In what some might argue is a bid to remain relevant, the anti-tobacco zealots have been working hard to creep...
Governor Jack Dalrymple Proposes Closing Down BreatheND, North Dakota’s Tobacco Taliban
The "Tobacco Taliban" is what state lawmakers, in private moments, call the bureaucratic zealots at the Center for Tobacco Prevention...
