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In 2009, the tobacco control community won a major, long-sought victory with the passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA), which gave the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products

But in at least one fundamental way, things were very much the same

Retail tobacco licenses Any time a new retailer is coming to the market intending to sell tobacco or any of its by-products, it will need to get a Cigarette and Tobacco License

Decades of science have shown that keeping tobacco products away from youth is critical to reducing the number of people who ultimately become addicted to these products and suffer from tobacco-related disease and death. Building on the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, signed into law on Dec 20, 2019, increased the federal minimum age for the sale of tobacco products from 18 to 21 across the United States