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Pols: Up age to buy cigs By JOE MAHONEY DAILY NEWS ALBANY BUREAU CHIEF ALBANY - It might be a drag for some 18-year-olds, but two lawmakers want to raise the legal age for buying cigarettes by a year. The two state legislators, Assemblywoman Sandra Galef (D-Westchester) and Sen. James Alesi (R-Rochester), are both ex-smokers who say they want to stop kids from getting hooked. 'It's very hard to stop smoking after you get addicted, so we want to stop young people from getting started,' Galef said. All 50 states set the smoking age at 18 in 1992. But since then, three states - Alabama, Alaska and Utah - have raised the bar to 19. A proposal that would have pushed the smoking age even higher in New York - to 21 - was bottled up in the state Senate last year.
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