"What we saw was all that business went to New Hampshire, all that business went to Rhode Island." "This isn't like that, this only affects the next generation who aren't heavy users of these products," said Gottlieb
They ban only the sale of tobacco and nicotine products to people born after the town's specified cutoff date
Nor would this be the act of a nitpicking nanny state meddling in the legitimately self regarding behaviour of adults
And yet smoking in pregnancy with the risks this carries for mother and baby are still high in some parts of Britain
As of March 2026, those 22 communitieshome to more than 600,000 peoplehave passed what are known as Nicotine Free Generation ordinances
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