PHAI’s Executive Director, Mark Gottlieb was featured on Radio Boston where he discussed the recent bylaw in Brookline, Massachusetts that was introduced in 2020 and was just recently upheld by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The ban on tobacco in Brookline, MA for those born on or after January 1st, 2000 is a first-in-the-nation law […]
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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
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in a unanimous decision, today gave the green light to the life-saving Nicotine-Free Generation (“NFG”) policy. The Brookline bylaw, which the Court upheld the Town of Brookline’s local law to prohibit sales of tobacco products to anyone born on or after January 1, 2000, is in conflict with the state
Northeastern University Distinguished Professor of Law and President of the Public Health Advocacy Institute, Richard Daynard, published an op-ed in The Hill on December 6, 2022, laying out the importance of punitive damages in civil justice to protect public health. The article references a billion-dollar punitive damages verdict in a Massachusetts tobacco case from September
On September 6, 2022, attorneys general from 33 states announced a tentative settlement of their joint investigation of the company involving cash payments to the states of $438.5 million over several years. PHAI’s executive director, Mark Gottlieb, discussed the settlement on NBC News NOW the following morning. That short interview can be seen here.
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In an op-ed published today in the Boston Globe, a day in which the FDA announced it’s intention to issue regulations to ban menthol cigarettes, PHAI’s executive director and president consider what the next steps in tobacco prevention should be. Gottlieb and Daynard suggest that:
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Today, the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) took the first step in launching a public health class action lawsuit in Massachusetts against Juul Labs, the makers of the most popular e-cigarette in the United States, for designing and marketing its product to appeal to and addict adolescents. This is the first such case brought against
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On Friday, July 28, 2017, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb unveiled a revamped approach to tobacco product regulation in an announcement that surprised tobacco companies, investors, and the public health community in equal measure. The goal, as articulated by Gottlieb, will be to regulate products so as to encourage migrating existing consumers from
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By Edward L. Sweda, Jr., PHAI Senior Attorney As I approached the Greater Richmond Convention Center on the partly cloudy morning of Thursday, May 18, 2017, thoughts of sub-freezing temperatures and snowstorms never entered my mind. But, before the morning gave way to the afternoon, I realized that I had just seen dozens of snowflakes. As
PHAI, on behalf of the Tobacco Free Living Community of Practice (a statewide coalition organized through the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health), submitted recommendations to the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (“MDHCD”) for its 2017 Qualified Allocation Draft Plan and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program. MDHCD implements the federal Law Income Housing Tax Credit and