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Massachusetts lawmakers push for an effort to ban all tobacco sales over time.
Other locations have weighed similar “generational tobacco bans,” which phase out the use of tobacco products based on a person's age.
Under a Massachusetts law signed in 2018 , the age to buy any tobacco product — including cigarettes, cigars and e-cigarettes — was raised to 21 .
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