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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I guess they’ve never heard of the phrase “equal treatment under the law.”
Leftists just make up stuff that makes them feel good about themselves.
Human rights are totally alien to them.
In a large urban area, a ban like this isn’t going to be very effective. Smokers will buy their smokes in Wellesley or Needham.
It certainly seems like this would crash and burn in a sensible court.
I’m guessing whoever owns a tabaco store five foot outside the city limits is going to be doing some extra business...
The American Indian tribes that have reservations near the towns that implement that ban are going to make a fortune.
Just saw that Needham has the ban, too. Still, plenty of choices in the Boston area.
In other words, you have to be 21.
Golly gee, the old age of majority.
Huj but pot is okay, to these dems.
In Mass, there will be no challenges
Nah. Sheldon was “mentoring” her.
Coca won’t grow here, so....
Well, she makes a nice protege.
Except that if you were born after that date, you’d still be barred ten, twenty years from now.
How about no abortions for anyone born after that date? Listen to the howls!
23 city council members??? What on earth for!
Oh, I totally misread and misunderstood.
I stand corrected.
And I work next door to Newton.
It's Massachusetts. You can legally smoke a bone! Adult or not.
“Newtonians” are really Newts (pronounced “Nyewts”)!
Lots of people roll their own (with machines) to escape the incredible taxes placed on cigarettes.
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