MA Bill Would Eventually Ban All Sales Of Tobacco

The Associated Press reports:

Under a Massachusetts law signed in 2018, the age to buy any tobacco product — including cigarettes, cigars and e-cigarettes — was raised to 21. Massachusetts also has banned the sale of all flavored tobacco products in an effort to reduce youth interest in nicotine.

The new proposal, which lawmakers plan to file next year, would expand the effort to curb smoking by gradually ending all sales of nicotine and tobacco products. If the bill is approved, young people not old enough to legally purchase nicotine and tobacco would never be lawfully able to purchase them in Massachusetts, thereby creating no more new users.

It would not apply to marijuana, and the cutoff date would be adjusted when passed to ensure everyone age 21 and above at that time would not be affected.

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Photo: State Sen. Jason Lewis, the bill’s sponsor.

Earlier this year Britain’s House Of Commons approved a bill that would raise the smoking age “by one year, every year, until it is eventually illegal for the whole population.” New Zealand enacted a similar law a couple of years ago, but it was repealed in February 2024 by the new government.

Massachusetts lawmakers push for an effort to ban all tobacco sales over time

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— Associated Press 🤖 (@asssociatedpress.bsky.social) November 29, 2024 at 12:34 AM