Who Is Actually Going to Enforce the New Age-21 Smoking Law?
People who are 18, 19, or 20-years-old are adults. Our government can draft them into the military, train them to...
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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...
Devils Lake’s New Age-21 Vaping Law Is Probably Illegal
MINOT, N.D. — Recently the Devils Lake City Commission passed a new ordinance raising the age at which it's legal to purchase...
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 -...
North Dakota Marijuana Activist Warns Against Using Marijuana Vaping Products
Last night David Owen called me and said he wanted to speak out about the dangers of marijuana vaping products....
Trump’s Ban on Flavored Vaping Products Is a Dumb, Knee-Jerk Reaction
In recent weeks we've seen a lot of headlines about vaping being linked to hundreds of cases of lung disease....
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...
Public Health Officials Need to Stop Treating Vaping as Though It Were the Same as Smoking
Should we care that much if teen's vape? It's a question I asked in a recent print column - my...
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,...
