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John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network Selling tobacco products will now require a license from the state. Beginning January 1, any retailer selling cigarettes or any other tobacco product will need a $75 license. Besides allowing the state to catalog tobacco retailers, the goal is to punish businesses which sell these products to underage buyers...

John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is among the federal lawmakers who want to raise the age for buying tobacco products to 21. Durbin says raising the tobacco-buying age from 18 will stop people from smoking, citing information from the National Institutes of Health that 95 percent of adult smokers picked up the habit before they turned 21...

A married couple might try to hide secrets from each other, but apparently nothing can be protected from the long arm of Google. Time.com reports a man was caught smoking by his wife with the help of Google Street View: Donald Ryding, 58, from Merseyside, U...

An anti-smoking bill signed into law by former Gov. Pat Quinn is about to change where people light up on state-supported college campuses. In short, nowhere. Starting Wednesday, smoking on all state-supported college and university campuses in Illinois will be prohibited...

Dave Dahl -- Illinois Radio Network Here's a story of senators saying government should butt out. A bill to outlaw smoking in cars while kids are in the car failed in the state legislature. State Sen. Ira Silverstein (D-Chicago) sponsored the bill on public health grounds, saying second-hand smoke can be fatal, particularly when you're exposed to it in a confined space...

DEKALB, Ill. (AP) — Northern Illinois University has created a task force to write a draft policy for the state's Smoke-Free Campus Act, which goes into effect July 1. Former Gov. Pat Quinn last August signed the law that bans smoking both indoors and outdoors in all Illinois state-supported higher education institutions...

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois' public colleges are going smoke-free — indoors and out — starting next summer. Gov. Pat Quinn says he's signed a law that bans indoor and outdoor smoking at all state-supported colleges and universities. The bill makes exceptions for smoking inside privately owned vehicles traveling through campus and some activities under the federal American Indian Religious Freedom Act.