PHAI’s Executive Director, Mark Gottlieb is quoted in a new Boston Globe article on the Massachusetts Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Brookline’s Nicotine Free Generation law to phase out tobacco sales.
Others have approved more aggressive measures; two California cities — Manhattan Beach and Beverly Hills — banned the sale of all tobacco products, for example. But Brookline is currently the only place in the world to implement a so-called generational sales ban, and is the first to survive a legal challenge from the tobacco industry on this front,
Read more on this historic decision here.