# OnCo record tobacco-21 (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/tobacco-21/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "tobacco-21" ;
  schema:name "Tobacco 21"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Tobacco 21 law"@en, "T21"@en, "minimum legal sales age 21"@en, "tobacco minimum age"@en ;
  schema:description "Since December 2019 it has been illegal across the United States to sell tobacco or vaping products to anyone under 21, a rule that started in one Massachusetts town and spread state by state, aimed at the years when most smokers start."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/tobacco-21/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-17"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_21> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_21>, <https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/retail-sales-tobacco-products/tobacco-21>, <https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1865> ;
  onco:tag "law", "us", "prevention" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/tobacco-control-act/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/screening/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/alcohol-attributable-cancer/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/smoking-cessation-after-diagnosis/> ;
  onco:institutions <https://onco.cc/institutions/iarc/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-prevention-adoption/> .