Equally encouraging is the push to raise the tobacco age at the local level. Earlier this month, Chicago became the latest big city to prohibit the sale of cigarettes…
Nicotine’s effect on brain development leads adolescents to heavier daily tobacco use, a stronger nicotine addiction and more trouble with quitting later in life…
“It is a powerful example of what can be done to drive public health when health experts and the business community work together,” said Scott Hall, who now leads the chamber’s Healthy KC initiative…
The latest roster from the Massachusetts Municipal Association lists 125 cities and towns with a tobacco age of 21, not including Holbrook, out of the state’s 351 cities and towns.
There is so much at stake. The reality is that youth are particularly susceptible to nicotine addiction, and nicotine harms the developing brain…