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In reply to the discussion: Bill to ban smoking for anyone born after 2009 introduced by government [View all]MichMan
(17,149 posts)11. Court upholds town bylaw banning anyone born in 21st century from buying tobacco products
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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 states 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.
The bylaw the first of its kind in the country was adopted by Brookline in 2020 and last week was upheld by the states 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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Bill to ban smoking for anyone born after 2009 introduced by government [View all]
Oopsie Daisy
Mar 2024
OP
Yep, it'll be like prohibition, which failed, and the war on drugs, which failed.
CurtEastPoint
Mar 2024
#3
It was the consistently increasing taxes on smokes that got me to finally quit after 35 years.
Torchlight
Mar 2024
#8
Court upholds town bylaw banning anyone born in 21st century from buying tobacco products
MichMan
Mar 2024
#11
That will create a black market. Do you want more gang running another black market?
Warpy
Mar 2024
#19
The effects of smoking (even when they fire-up outside) has negative consequences on *
Oopsie Daisy
Mar 2024
#34
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
I'm sure that they've taken that into consideration. Access by way of peers is not new *
Oopsie Daisy
Mar 2024
#41