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

[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.

[Celtic Conservative]

While I dislike smoking (my mother died from lung cancer) I don’t believe they can outlaw it. If we’re gonna allow alcohol and pot, the smoking lamp is still lit.

CC

[ClarityGuy]

How about making pot illegal to purchase on the part of all residents who are old enough to have been stoned during the Summer of Love?