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Another Mass. town has passed a ‘generational ban’ on tobacco products Newton City Council voted 19-4 to prohibit the sale of tobacco to anyone born after March 1, 2004.
www.boston.com ^ | 01/23/2025 | Madeleine Aitken

Posted on 01/23/2025 3:23:43 PM PST by massmike

Newton joined several other Massachusetts towns when its City Council approved a “generational ban” on tobacco products.

These laws prohibit the sale of tobacco products to people born after a certain year, essentially aiming to phase out tobacco altogether. Brookline was the first municipality in the country to adopt one of these bans, which blocked the sale of tobacco to anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 2000, when it did so in 2020.

“Programs and Services voted to amend the proposed item so that it now reads that anyone born after March 1, 2004, would be prohibited from purchasing tobacco in the city of Newton,” Krintzman said.

He described the ban, which the council approved 19-4, as a “lifetime prohibition” for anyone born after that date.

In addition to Brookline, Newton joins a growing collection of Massachusetts towns that include Stoneham, Wakefield, Winchester, Reading, Malden, Melrose, Concord, Chelsea, Belchertown, Needham, and Manchester-by-the-Sea.

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KEYWORDS: massachusetts; nannystate; prohibition
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1 posted on 01/23/2025 3:23:43 PM PST by massmike
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We need farmers growing hemp.

Just another example of liberal tyranny.


2 posted on 01/23/2025 3:25:33 PM PST by Jonty30 (If you ate your twin in the womb, your pronouns should be we/us.)
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To: massmike

No way this stands up to legal challenges


3 posted on 01/23/2025 3:26:57 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: massmike

Sounds like a bill of attainder.

Only applies to certain people.


4 posted on 01/23/2025 3:26:58 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Jonty30

So just buy it in New Hampshire.


5 posted on 01/23/2025 3:28:02 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: massmike

Not surprisingly,in the presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris was the favorite among Newtonians, who gave her 77 percent of the city’s vote. Former President Donald Trump got 18.3 percent.
https://www.newtonbeacon.org/by-the-numbers-how-newton-voted-in-the-2024-election/?fbclid=IwY2xjawH_r9lleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHWDYBVUXfLs3aGRHuiElnuKaZ2N3m7aBotD4s7csQVHHmAnuoVCWGCPPfw_aem_pQnjGEpC3eoACAvvCNP9kw


6 posted on 01/23/2025 3:29:24 PM PST by massmike (I'm only here to observe these earthlings.)
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To: massmike

Who gives a fig?


7 posted on 01/23/2025 3:31:36 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: massmike

Whatever happened to age discrimination among adults?


8 posted on 01/23/2025 3:31:51 PM PST by Stosh
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To: massmike

I hate tobacco. But it’s legal. Outlawing its sale to someone born after x, but not one day before x doesn’t pass the smell test. If it’s legal for one, it’s legal for all. How is this different from, say, outlawing its sale to blacks?


9 posted on 01/23/2025 3:31:51 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: gundog

You don’t understand the gravity of the situation.


10 posted on 01/23/2025 3:33:44 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Larry Lucido

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11 posted on 01/23/2025 3:40:56 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: clee1
No way this stands up to legal challenges.

Laughable really. Did any of these idiots actually go to law school? If they did they should demand a refund.

12 posted on 01/23/2025 3:44:08 PM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: gundog

She must have given up sex for a month! Or does it work the other way around? I can never remember.


13 posted on 01/23/2025 3:44:10 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: massmike

Bet they can still buy pot though...

The war on tobacco continues while they push pot on us now.


14 posted on 01/23/2025 3:45:30 PM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Gen.Blather

One possible solution could be to prohibit the large scale domestic production, sale and importation of cigarettes into the country. Period This means that it is OK if a person lives in a climate area to grow your own tobacco for personal use. OK if a person wants to travel abroad and bring back a suitcase full of cigarettes. People would not be able to go to the local convenience store to buy cigarettes because they just wouldn’t be there. This would probable reduce the consumption of cigarettes by 99+ %. Would need to give the tobaccco farmers some lead time to change to another crop.


15 posted on 01/23/2025 3:47:55 PM PST by Cautious Optimism
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To: clee1
No way this stands up to legal challenges

I hope not ... Smoking is loathsome. Tyranny is worse. This is tyranny.

16 posted on 01/23/2025 3:50:22 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: massmike
I grew up in Newton.Rich...."progressive"... a city you'd expect to see as a suburb of San Francisco.

A fun fact...a few years ago there was a huge controversy regarding a guy who wanted to open a gun shop in town. Residents and politicians went wild. No way,Jose!,they chanted...in unison,or course.

But just a few months earlier they approved a marijuana shop with no problem at all.

So in this town they approved a shop that was openly violating Federal law (marijuana is totally illegal under Federal law) yet they turned down a shop that specifically protected by an Amendment to the Constitution. s

17 posted on 01/23/2025 3:51:41 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Cautious Optimism
Would need to give the tobaccco farmers some lead time to change to another crop.

coca, hemp and opium plants seem to be profitable.

18 posted on 01/23/2025 3:52:39 PM PST by BipolarBob (DEIs pronouns are was/were/has been.)
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To: clee1

Being a lifelong resident of The Gay State (Massachusetts) I can guarantee you that there’s not a judge in this state that would rule to strike down such a law. I suppose Federal courts might be different.


19 posted on 01/23/2025 3:56:24 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: gundog

I hate tobacco but I love my God-given rights and that they are enshrined in the US Constitution. If this is allowed for this horrible plant what next?


20 posted on 01/23/2025 3:56:35 PM PST by frogjerk
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