Spot all about good food and family. Hi, good evening im ukee washington. Im jessica dean. We begin tonight with a push by new jersey lawmakers to raise the age for all Tobacco Sales and that includes ecigarettes. Diana rocco is in pennsauken right now with more on the proposal. Diana. Reporter ukee and jessica, the new age would be 21 and with this new bill lawmakers are now trying to get teens to stop smoking before they start. Smoking may soon be a lot harder in the state of new jersey for young adults. The legislature is now tackling a bill that would move the legal buying age from 19 to 21 years old. Im very much in favor of it. I think its a positive thing and it could help a lot of people quit smoking. Not quit but not start it in the first place. Reporter inside sage diner in mt. Laurel some of the younger diners see classmates taking less smoke break at school while others say its about sending the right message. Its not good. Its not healthy. Everything that weve read and all
Old. Im very much in favor of it. I think its a positive thing and it could help a lot of people quit smoking. Not quit but not start it in the first place. Reporter inside sage diner in mt. Laurel some of the younger diners see classmates taking less smoke break at school while others say its about sending the right message. Its not good. Its not healthy. Everything that weve read and all the medical journals and all the doctors always tell you how detrimental smoking is. Reporter the state would lose 1 million in revenue every year on cigarette tax. We certainly move the drinking age from 18 to 21, um, and weve had better out comes. Reporter one of the bills sponsor said would save millions in health care for would be smokers who never start. Moving it just a few more years we know that the young minds dont develop until much later, and if they adopt addictive behaviors early on in life they will continue with these sort avenue dick tiff behaviors. Reporter hawaii is the only other s
Now looking dry, overnight construction slowly starting to get out of the way. Whats in store for us . Looks like the rain will hang on or hold off until we hit the weaken here. So it comes i guess when you could say at a good time, unless you had outdoor plans this weekend, at least not battling wet weather through any kind of major traffic jams out there. At least not typical rush hour this weekend. But, storm scan3, still pretty quiet. We showed you the early wide zoom for a reason, storm has yet to makes its arrival. Awaiting its arrival until later on tonight really. So storm scan3, we put hinges into motion, finds clouds out there, but not expecting wet weather just yet, that holds off until later tonight. Lets go ahead, take a look what we do have coming up here, thats Winter Weather advisory, strictly for monroe county, giles and other portions of the poconos. What this tells you is that you are going to have enough warmth in place everywhere else, even in carbon county, even i