Brookline Banned Anyone Born This Century From Buying Tobacco in Town. The Rule Is ‘Clever,’ but Is It Legal?

Mark Gottlieb ’93, executive director of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI), is representing the town of Brookline in a challenge to its tobacco-free generation law. “What the SJC does in this case may not have any impact on whether a policy may withstand a legal challenge in other states,” he tells The Boston Globe. “But it certainly would show it’s possible, given the right legal environment, to implement a policy that is truly an end-game policy for tobacco sales.”