According to Dr. Rob Crane, a physician and professor at Ohio State, and advocate for raising the tobacco age, 95 percent of smokers start before the age of 21 and raising the age would almost immediately reduce high school smoking by half. read more
Yes it should. The movement to increase the minimum age for legally buying tobacco to 21 started in Needham, MA., and many MA ares, including Boston, already have a limit of 21. It should go state-wide. I am a Canadian physician leading a campaign to increase the MLA for tobacco in Canada to 21. read more
“If young people start smoking before 21, they often become smokers for life.” Raising the age to 21 for tobacco sales would put Massachusetts in the forefront of that effort nationwide. That age already is the law in California, Hawaii, New Jersey and Oregon, and it will take effect July 1 in Maine. read more
The leaders of more than 100 cities and towns in Massachusetts have formally voted to adopt a minimum legal sales age of 21 (MLSA 21). Adults should be free to choose, but Big Tobacco should not be free to entice our children into a lethal addiction through cigarettes, nor through e-cigarettes and other new tobacco products that are cheap, sweet and far too accessible. read more