Lawmakers and advocates have tried to hike the minimum age to purchase tobacco products in Illinois for three years, each time making the push first in the Senate. This session, advocates are trying a different approach. “What we’re doing this time is running it through the House first, because we have more people to deal with,” House sponsor Camille Lilly, a Democrat from Chicago, said. “In the Senate, there’s only 56 people — there’s 118 in the House. It’s easy to get it through the Senate.”