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Convenience stores protest Boston’s flavored tobacco ban (CSPnet, Melissa Vonder Haar)

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Boston banned the sale of flavored tobacco products, and the Boston Convenience Store Owners Association demonstrated outside of City Hall. The Association stated that they supported the recent city law that increases the minimum age to 21 to be sold tobacco, but oppose the flavored ban. According to the CSPnet article, 50 towns Massachusetts have banned flavored tobacco sales.