Ohio

A key committee is deciding whether or not to remove language that would raise the age of sale of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, from 18 to 21. We need your help to keep State lawmakers on track.

Each year, the Ohio Breast and Cervical Cancer Project (BCCP) provides low-income, underinsured or uninsured Ohio women access to cancer screening and diagnostic testing services. In 2019, more than 10,000 Ohio women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and more than 1,700 Ohio women will die from breast cancer. It...

By raising the legal sale age for these products, we aim to decrease the burden of tobacco-related illness and healthcare costs to Ohioans.

Nearly 20,000 Ohioans die every year from smoking. If nothing is done to reduce smoking in our state, 259,000 youth alive today will die prematurely from smoking. We must act now to reverse the toll of tobacco on Ohio.