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Needham youth speak at The 84 Movement Youth Power Summit Community Content Recently, local youth from Needham’s chapter of The 84 Movement, Students Advocating Life without Substance Abuse, presented a workshop at The 84 Movement’s virtual Youth Power Summit on the need for better education, resources, programs and policies around vaping, including support for youth in making vape quit attempts. The group talked about their initiatives at Needham High School and strategies for developing similar programs. The 84 Movement is a youth-led movement focused on making a tobacco-free generation in Massachusetts. It is funded by the Massachusetts Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Program, a program of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. ....
Should Massachusetts lift its ban on flavored tobacco products? Read two views and vote in our online poll. By John Laidler Globe Correspondent,Updated December 23, 2020, 4:40 p.m. Email to a Friend Jonathan Shaer Executive Director of the New England Convenience Store and Energy Marketers Association, based in Stoughton; Needham resident Jonathan Shaer Prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco by licensed retailers in Massachusetts was an ill-conceived, excessive policy that has failed by every measure and should be repealed. The focus of the law should be restricting all points of youth access to vape, including online and social sources, and curtailing the myriad flavors that make it so attractive to underage youth. Period. Yet, the governor signed into law a policy that goes well beyond vape to include menthol cigarettes and mint/wintergreen smokeless tobacco â both adult products â with consequences for the state, small businesses, and ....