A landmark bill that would have mostly banned selling cigarettes in Nevada to anyone born after Dec. 31, 2004 has failed. And a key component of that failure was language that exempted the state’s casinos from that ban.
Introduced by Rep. David Orentlicher, Assembly Bill 279 was “designed to prevent young Nevadans from ever taking up and becoming addicted to cigarettes,” Orentlicher said during AB279’s April 1 hearing before the Assembly Committee on Revenue.
By outlawing selling cigarettes to anyone born after Dec. 31, 2004, the bill would have, in effect, increased the minimum smoking age in Nevada each year. In 2025, it would be 21, the standard minimum smoking age across the U.S.
