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Massachusetts

Worcester health board raises minimum age for tobacco to 21

It's going to get harder for teens to buy a pack of smokes in the second largest city in Massachusetts, after the Worcester Board of Health voted to raise the legal age to buy cigarettes to 21 in September. The unanimous vote followed a packed public hearing Wednesday

Massachusetts

Senate votes to bar tobacco to under-21 buyers in Mass.

BOSTON – The Massachusetts Senate voted 32 to 2 Thursday to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco in the state to 21 from 18 to 21, passing legislation that supporters said would cut down youth smoking and nicotine addiction. The bill, compiled by the Joint Committee on Public Health based