Posted on 03/08/2024 10:45:00 AM PST by massmike
This Massachusetts town is going to lose a lot of sales tax revenue to surround a communities. I seen this in dry counties in the south east, it just doesn’t work. What you get is bars on the county border and a lot more people getting DUI’s.
Futile gesture. The kids will go to the next town to buy smokes if they can afford them. High taxes are a better deterrent. A black market is the side effect.
In the fall of 2021, the town of Brookline put into practice a first-in-the-nation ordinance that ties the right to buy tobacco to a person’s birth date, not their age. Anyone born after January 1, 2000, meaning anyone who turned 21 since January 1, 2021, is not able to legally purchase cigarettes or vaping products in Brookline—ever. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/anti-smoking-law-brookline/
Brookline is one stop on mass transit away from Boston.
I wonder if the smokers can figure this out....lol.
Supreme Judicial scum.
Brookline is surrounded by Boston, and not very big. Anybody who wants to buy tobacco will just walk, drive, or take public transit to Boston.
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