2014年高考英语阅读理解素材：26_纽约将提升香烟的最低购买年龄素材.docVIP

纽约将提升香烟的最低购买年龄 New York City Council has voted to raise the minimum age for buying cigarettes from 18 to 21. 纽约市议会投票决定将购买香烟的最低年龄从18岁提升至21岁。 ? New York will now become by far the most populous place in the US to impose such a high age limit, the Associated Press reports. ? The new age limit includes electronic vapour cigarettes. ? Across the US there is a minimum age for smoking of 18. Some states have raised the limit to 19 and at least two other towns have raised it to 21. ? The bills sponsor, City Councilman James Gennaro, said it would literally save many, many lives.? ? Mr Gennaro, whose m