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How old do you have to be to buy cigarettes? Increasingly, that depends on where you live.

In most places, you can still buy cigarettes if you're 18. Last month, however, Hawaii became the first state to raise the minimum age for tobacco purchases to 21. The California Senate has passed similar legislation, while a handful of states have raised the age to 19.

Image: Newsies smoking, St. Louis, Missouri. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, 9 May 1910. (Wikimedia// Lewis Hine)