Tobacco Age Rises to 19 in NH

The State of New Hampshire’s minimum age for buying tobacco products is on the rise, reports nhpr.org.

The compromise budget that governor Chris Sununu signed this past week will raise the minimum age one year, to 19. Many were hopeful that NH would hike the number to 21 years old, as some local communities have already done. Currently, more than a dozen states, including Vermont and Maine, have a minimum age of 21 years old.

According to the Associated Press, the budget that this law falls under is a “nearly $13 billion, two-year state budget.”

New Hampshire joins only two states, Alabama and Alaska, as the only states to have 19 as the minimum age to purchase tobacco products.