Massachusetts town weighs nation's 1st tobacco ban

Massachusetts being one of the first democratic based states to place a ban on selling tobacco products in the first tobacco free town in the isa. The board of health came together to meet and discuss the issue with mayor and concluded the meeting with the official ban of the sale of tobacco products within town lines "Westminster the first municipality in the United States to ban sales of all tobacco products within town lines."To my knowledge, it would be the first in the nation to enact a total ban," said Thomas Carr, director of national policy at the American Lung Association. "We commend the town for doing it."


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