ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH: MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT UPHOLDS TOBACCO-FREE GENERATION LAW
March 09, 2024
March 09, 2024
WASHINGTON, March 9 -- Action on Smoking and Health issued the following news release on March 8, 2024:
In a decision that is likely to spur similar laws in other towns, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today upheld a law in the town of Brookline that bans the sale of tobacco products to anyone born on or after January 1, 2000. The gradual phase-out of tobacco sales based on birthdate is often called Tobacco-Free Generation (TFG). The law forbids only commercial sales, not t . . .
In a decision that is likely to spur similar laws in other towns, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today upheld a law in the town of Brookline that bans the sale of tobacco products to anyone born on or after January 1, 2000. The gradual phase-out of tobacco sales based on birthdate is often called Tobacco-Free Generation (TFG). The law forbids only commercial sales, not t . . .