Walmart says it will raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products and e-cigarettes at its stores to 21-years-old.
This comes as regulators are putting pressure on stores to cut tobacco sales and use among minors.
United States Senators Todd Young, R-Indiana, Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, Mitt Romney, R-Utah, and Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, held a press conference with anti-tobacco and public health advocates in support of their bipartisan bill "Tobacco to 21 Act," which would raise the federal minimum age to buy tobacco products — including e-cigarette — to 21-years-old.
Walmart will also stop selling fruit and dessert flavored e-cigarette, which critics says can hook teenagers on vaping.
The new rules will take effect nationwide in July.
