INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Nearly one-fifth of a proposed state funding hike for Indiana’s schools would go toward expanding private school voucher and virtual school programs under a budget plan...

INDIANANPOLIS (AP) — Indiana could increase its cigarette tax for the first time in more than a decade and impose a new state tax on vaping liquids under a proposal taken up Monday by state...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Many New Mexico teenagers have stopped cigarette smoking but have taken up vaping, erasing progress anti-tobacco advocates said they achieved in getting high school...

ATLANTA (AP) — Lawmakers in Georgia's House voted Thursday to regulate and tax vaping products, but aren't taking the chance to raise taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida is poised to raise the minimum age for smoking and vaping to 21.

The state Senate on Thursday joined the House in approving a measure that would also ban the...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers are poised to double the fines stores could face for selling smoking or vaping products to anyone younger than 21 years old.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — No one under 21 would be allowed to purchase cigarettes or vaping products under a bill the state Assembly approved Thursday.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Raising alarm over the boom in e-cigarettes among young people, Florida lawmakers Tuesday moved to raise the age limit on tobacco products from 18 to 21.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Stores across Indiana would face tougher penalties for selling tobacco products to anyone younger than 21 under a bill endorsed Tuesday by the Indiana House.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The smell gives it away before you even spot the ashtrays on the bar.

In the early afternoon on a Thursday, the Squirrel Hill Café isn’t packed, but the smell of smoke...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The push to toughen Indiana’s penalties on stores for selling tobacco products to underage customers is facing some questions over whether the proposed fines are too...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Lincoln City Council has voted to ban vaping in public spaces and work sites, adding e-cigarettes to the city ban on indoor smoking of tobacco products.

MESA, Ariz. (AP) — The Mesa City Council has approved an ordinance that updates the city code to add vaping and the use of vaping devices to existing citywide no-smoking regulations.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's high school students are drinking less and using less tobacco, but more young people are having extended periods of feeling sad or hopeless, according to...

BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on Massachusetts becoming the first state to ban flavored tobacco and vaping products, including menthol cigarettes (all times local):

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a British American Tobacco challenge to regulations that charge the tobacco industry a fee to help compensate people affected by...

PHOENIX (AP) — Another fight over tobacco and vaping laws is headed for the Arizona Capitol next year after a Republican lawmaker said Tuesday she’ll try again to convince lawmakers to make it...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Officials in Lincoln and Lancaster County are taking steps toward adding vaping to the local ban in indoor smoking, prompting a vow from a woman who owns three Lincoln vape...

LEBANON, N.H. (AP) — Pregnant women who are trying to quit smoking are getting more help at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health thanks to a $20,000 grant from the March of Dimes and the Anthem Blue Cross...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin lawmakers are moving ahead with a bipartisan proposal to limit the sale of vaping and other tobacco products to people over age 21, holding a public hearing...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama city council has approved an ordinance prohibiting smoking in a 100-block zone around schools and health facilities.

Summary of recent Kentucky newspaper editorials:

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The State Journal on universities that are banning nicotine products, including Western Kentucky University:

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Anchorage Assembly will let voters decide whether the city should allow on-site smoking in retail marijuana shops, officials said.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M University officials decided to ban e-cigarettes from all campuses because of the health risks associated with smoking them.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A new law barring teenagers in Maryland from buying tobacco products including electronic smoking devices goes into effect Tuesday.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The University of Utah has announced a hard enforcement of their campus wide tobacco-free policy, including public events and football games.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — You now must be at least 21 to buy cigarettes in Vermont.

A new law that raised the minimum age from 18 to buy tobacco products and electronic cigarettes went into...