STATE HOUSE — The Massachusetts smoking age would rise to 21 and pharmacies would be banned from selling cigarettes and other tobacco products under a bill recommended Thursday by the Joint Committee on Public Health.
The bill, intended to curb youth tobacco use and nicotine addiction, also includes electronic cigarettes and "other similar products that rely on vaporization or aerosolization" in the definition of tobacco products that cannot be used in public places or sold to minors.
MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man accused of shaving his head and taking weight loss pills to convince people he had stage 3 brain cancer and collect thousands in donations has pleaded not guilty.
Tyler Tomer of Wallingford entered the plea Thursday to charges of first-degree larceny and first-degree larceny by defrauding a public community.
