The California Senate approved a package of anti-tobacco legislation that includes raising the minimum age for the purchase of tobacco products to 21 and applying the same restrictions as combustible products to e-cigarettes, the Associated Press said.

If Gov Jerry Brown signs the legislation, California will become the second state after Hawaii to raise the smoking age from 18 to 21. State Senator Ed Hernandez, author of the bill, issued a statement that said, “this is California's chance to make history by drastically reducing Big Tobacco's ability to target and poison our youth. We will no longer stand idly by while they continue to get generation after generation addicted.”