Medford and Lexington are weighing a 'generational ban' on tobacco sales this week, and retailers aren't happy
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"If enacted in either town, the ordinance would prohibit the sale of tobacco and vapor products to anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 2004."
"The thinking behind the legislation, Silbaugh said, is that the vast majority of smokers would not want to be smokers and would like for the next generation not to be smokers."
"Addiction is part of the business model for the tobacco industry... They need young people to become addicted."
"(The ordinance) doesn't do too much work today or tomorrow, but it does work over the years," said Katharine Silbaugh, a professor of law at Boston University.
Read at Boston.com
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