{"id":79154,"date":"2019-04-23T10:18:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T15:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=79154"},"modified":"2019-04-23T10:18:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T15:18:51","slug":"illinois-vape-shops-prepare-for-statewide-increase-in-smoking-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/illinois-vape-shops-prepare-for-statewide-increase-in-smoking-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois vape shops prepare for statewide increase in smoking age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> By Andrew Sweeney <\/strong><br \/>\n<em> Medill Reports <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">A statewide ban on sales of tobacco and e-cigarettes to those under 21 years of age will go into effect in Illinois on July 1st of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Chicago enacted a similar ban in 2016, which led to a 36% drop in smoking among 18-to-20-year-olds, according to the city&#8217;s Department of Public Health. Several other municipalities in the Chicagoland area have implemented similar measures.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Illinois vape shops prepare for increase in age limit for smoking product purchases\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/331472081?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some suburban tobacco and vape shop owners worry about the economic impact on their stores when the age increase goes into effect this summer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Shawn Sahlberg, manager of Vapors Unlimited, an e-cigarette shop in Lyle, Ill., is worried that the age change will affect his business. He say&#8217;s he&#8217;ll lose current customers who are under 21. &#8220;We thought about going to the town hall and seeing if we could kind of grandfather-in the 19 and 20-year-olds,&#8221; he said. 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