Should We Ban the Purchase of Cigarettes for Life? A US Town Is Trying

Professor Mark Gottlieb, Executive Director of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, comments on the likelihood of Congress adopting the birthdate ban on purchasing cigarettes, “Individual responsibility, individualism, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, these are certainly baked into the American culture and politics,” he says in The Guardian, “and the most important thing that’s baked into American politics is the influence of money.”