Some live music options for this week.

The District’s first vape store shut down, while others are expanding into glassware and Maryland.

D.C. doesn’t know why.

In a release, Kenyan McDuffie said that raising the age would “decrease access to cigarettes, and, more importantly, may decrease the rate of smoking in young adults.”

D.C. has moved to ban insurers from charging smokers higher premiums on insurance plans they get through the new health exchange mandated by President Obama’s health care reform law.

A D.C. judge ruled today that tobacco companies will have to admit in advertisements that they lied to the public about the inherent dangers of smoking.

This AP story reporting a soon to be announced proposal from Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine to raise the per pack cigarette tax in the state by 30 cents seems pretty interesting. We obviously don’t follow Virginia politics as closely as we do the District’s, but it strikes us that it would be kind of amazing if the inextricably tobacco-linked state ends up finally making its cigarettes more expensive due to the recession. Kaine is reportedly…