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Such sweeping measures indicate a wide appreciation of the health threats posed by cigarettes

But America got there firstand it happened not in Congress or a state legislature, but at town meetings across Massachusetts

The laws work by raising the legal purchase age for tobacco by one year, every year, effectively ensuring that anyone born after a specific cutoff datemost commonly January 1, 2000can never legally buy tobacco products in those towns, for the rest of their lives

Between 2001 and 2019, the proportion of daily smokers aged 18 to 39 has halved, though figures have not improved in those in their 50s and 60s

A convenience store owners' association challenged it in court, arguing it conflicted with the state's minimum purchase age of 21 and unconstitutionally discriminated against people born on or after January 1, 2000

It suggested 2000 as a threshold birth year for a long-term phasing-in of a total ban