BOSTON (WWLP) – A pending Bay State bill would prohibit cities and towns’ Boards of Health from implementing community wide bans on the sale of any legal consumer product.
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While this bill does not reference nicotine or tobacco in its text, it would disallow municipalities from instituting tobacco and nicotine bans and regulations independent of the state’s rules.
Northampton and Belchertown both currently have generational tobacco bans, prohibiting anyone born in 2004 or later from ever purchasing these addictive and harmful substances.
“We want to regulate an industry that specifically targets our youth with a deadly, addictive substance, and giving our local communities the tools to do that is so important,” said Virginia Chadwick of the Nicotine-Free Generation Coalition…