Genesee County is the latest government to vote to raise the minimum age for buying cigarettes.
The board of commissioners passed a resolution, 7-2, yesterday to make it illegal to sell tobacco to people under 21 years old.
That's county-wide, including the city of Flint. The ordinance is set to go into effect in 90 days.
More than 200 cities and counties across the country have raised the minimum age for tobacco sales. Ann Arbor was the first city in Michigan to do so, but attorney general Bill Schuette said that the law is in conflict with a state law passed in 1972.
