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Lawmakers in Massachusetts are trying to eventually stop the sale of tobacco

boonchai wedmakawand/Getty ImagesMassachusetts lawmakers proposed a generational ban on nicotine product sales.The state previously raised the legal age for tobacco purchases to 21 in 2018.Similar bans exist in other parts of Massachusetts.A group of lawmakers in Massachusetts are attempting to outlaw young people from buying nicotine products with a proposal that will, in time, prevent everyone from buying them.Not only would the new proposal prohibit anyone under the legal age of 21 from purchasing tobacco products, it would ensure that anyone born after a certain year wouldn't be able to buy them either, as first reported by the Associated Press."We all know the devastating health effects of nicotine and tobacco products, especially on our youth who are targeted by Big Tobacco," Democratic Sen.

 

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