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Beyond the usual memorable factors — fears about the millennium bug, the dawn of the 21st century — January 1, 2000, is a significant date for residents of Brookline, Massachusetts. In the town on the outskirts of Boston, vendors are legally banned from selling tobacco products and e-cigarettes to anyone born after Y2K. The legislation came into effect in September last year, after a vote in November 2020, making Brookline the first US town to implement such a law, in the hopes of gradually phasing out smoking for younger generations. It is not clear how effective the policy in Brookline m...

Brookline, Massachusetts, banned the sale of tobacco products to anyone born after 2000, with a NZ law to be introduced this year. Could Australia be next?

January 03, 2021 A sign in a convenience store at Bedok Interchange Food Centre showing the updated minimum age of 21 for people buying tobacco products. The Straits Times SINGAPORE - What started as being a curious 16-year-old, wanting to be cool and fit in with friends quickly turned into a habit and today Chris is a full-blown, self-confessed smoking addict. That is not his real name, and with reason: As of Friday (Jan 1), the full-time national serviceman, 20, became guilty of underage smoking. The minimum legal age for buying and using tobacco products was raised from 20 to 21 on that da...

The Straits Times Time to do more to stub out smoking in Singapore? The Jan 1 raising of the minimum age limit for smoking to 21 is the latest step to manage the harm of tobacco, following measures over the years to shrink the space you can take a puff in public. But some feel more needs to be done to weed out the habit. A sign in a convenience store at Bedok Interchange Food Centre showing the updated minimum age of 21 for people buying tobacco products.ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM https://str.sg/JDob They can read the article in full after signing up for a free account.