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MichMan

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11. Court upholds town bylaw banning anyone born in 21st century from buying tobacco products
Sun Mar 24, 2024, 07:54 PM
Mar 2024

Already here in the US

Brookline, Mass. — A Massachusetts town that adopted an unusual ordinance banning the sale of tobacco to anyone born in the 21st century is being looked at as a possible model for other cities and towns hoping to further clamp down on cigarettes and tobacco products.

The bylaw — the first of its kind in the country — was adopted by Brookline in 2020 and last week was upheld by the state’s highest court, opening the door for other communities to adopt similar bans that will, decades from now, eventually bar all future generations from buying tobacco.

The rule, which bans the sale of tobacco to anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 2000, went into effect in 2021 in the town of about 60,000 next to Boston.


https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2024/03/11/court-upholds-town-bylaw-banning-anyone-born-in-21st-century-from-buying-tobacco-products/72935779007/

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Death sticks DoBW Mar 2024 #1
We can ban asbestos, which kills a mere 40k people per year * Oopsie Daisy Mar 2024 #15
This will be effective as the 1919 US Prohibition of Alcohol. Jacson6 Mar 2024 #2
Yep, it'll be like prohibition, which failed, and the war on drugs, which failed. CurtEastPoint Mar 2024 #3
Yeah, like that's ever going to work Warpy Mar 2024 #4
People aren't going to grow it and cure it. Mosby Mar 2024 #5
That's going to happen, also Warpy Mar 2024 #13
More more more DoBW Mar 2024 #7
So, born before that date, can still smoke? Attilatheblond Mar 2024 #6
It was the consistently increasing taxes on smokes that got me to finally quit after 35 years. Torchlight Mar 2024 #8
I just quit smoking róisín_dubh Mar 2024 #21
Good for you! It's a tough habit to break. Luz Mar 2024 #23
I quit in '09, same year pinpointed in story DoBW Mar 2024 #29
Sorry, I hate cigs too but this is outrageous. flying_wahini Mar 2024 #9
They are already trying it in the USA KarenS Mar 2024 #10
Cool. Oopsie Daisy Mar 2024 #16
Court upholds town bylaw banning anyone born in 21st century from buying tobacco products MichMan Mar 2024 #11
Apt theme song: ret5hd Mar 2024 #12
Stupid. Aristus Mar 2024 #14
If you want more of something, subsdize it Warpy Mar 2024 #17
Yes... I think taxing it is a good start. $2 per cigarette * Oopsie Daisy Mar 2024 #18
That will create a black market. Do you want more gang running another black market? Warpy Mar 2024 #19
Yes. That's exactly what I want. You figured me out! Oopsie Daisy Mar 2024 #22
Both my parents died from it Warpy Mar 2024 #31
The effects of smoking (even when they fire-up outside) has negative consequences on * Oopsie Daisy Mar 2024 #34
That's the logic of the war on drugs Warpy Mar 2024 #36
Oh lord. Oopsie Daisy Mar 2024 #37
It's unconscionable interference with the lives of individuals Warpy Mar 2024 #38
LOL! Oopsie Daisy Mar 2024 #39
Every single day, I see lower income people digging cigarette butts out of outdoor ashcans so they can roll whatever Midwestern Democrat Mar 2024 #33
Sorry, that's not helping them out. Oopsie Daisy Mar 2024 #35
As much as I hate cigarettes, it's hard to imagine it being effective. ShazzieB Mar 2024 #20
Anyone who's ever seen a Jonesing smoker Warpy Mar 2024 #32
How about pipe tobacco? Cigars? Ridiculous. nt LexVegas Mar 2024 #24
It's already failed in New Zealand. hunter Mar 2024 #25
Bill title: "How to make smoking totally attractive to kids." Scrivener7 Mar 2024 #26
There would still be FEWER smokers and FEWER deaths. Oopsie Daisy Mar 2024 #27
Sure! We proved that with Prohibition! Scrivener7 Mar 2024 #30
My wife and I still enjoy a cigar out in our garden on a nice day Layzeebeaver Mar 2024 #28
This is ridiculous LeftishBrit Mar 2024 #40
I'm sure that they've taken that into consideration. Access by way of peers is not new * Oopsie Daisy Mar 2024 #41
Alcohol isn't a lifetime ban. Once over 21 or 18 you can buy it. JanMichael Mar 2024 #42
Cigarettes are responsible for 480,000 deaths per year in the US alone. Oopsie Daisy Mar 2024 #43
1 in 5 deaths worldwide are caused by poor diets JanMichael Mar 2024 #44
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