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Assignment -

Topic: New Jersey Raises Smoking Age and Tobacco Sales to 21.

Please use at least 10 sources for your paper and use the proper citations. Sources can be news articles, journals, books, ect.

Write a 5-6 pages research paper that explores this specific public policy involved political controversy when it was proposed or latter when it was implemented. Your paper should then address the following questions:

1. Why the specific policy or program was proposed in first place and what issues/problems was it seeking to address?

2. Who would benefit or did benefit from the proposed or implemented effort?

3. Who would benefit or did benefit from the proposed or implemented effort?

4. Who cared?

5. What was the context?

6. Did the supporters present data, facts, evidence on why people should have cared about the issue? What were they?

7. Did the opponents present an opposing set of data, facts, and arguments? What were they?

8. What messaging did the supporters and opponents use? Did they use specific messengers to support of oppose the policy/program?

9. Was the proposed or implemented effort a regulation, program, grant, administrative change ect. Did it or would it significant costs or money, staff or other resources?

10. How did the supporters attempt or advance the policy (ie..did they do grassroots or grasstops lobbying, rally's, testimonies..

11. Did the initial policy idea change or get modified in the process? If yes, why?

12. What were/are the politics on this issue and how did they impact the process?

13. In your opinion, was the policy/program in the public interest and serve the common good?

14. How did the supporters of the effort manage the politics? Did they do a good job? Why or why not?

15. What was your opinion?