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Foxborough's Board of Health Considering Changes to Town's Tobacco Regulations
Foxborough will be looking at their sale and penalty regulations regarding tobacco during a public hearing in June.
Foxborough's Board of Health is currently considering changes to the town’s tobacco laws.
“They need some tightening up,” said Foxborough Health Director Pauline Clifford. “We’re having a hearing on June 24. We’ll discuss it that night, listen for public comment and could adopt it that evening."
The board tentatively voted in favor of 10 changes to the regulations. If the draft regulation changes go into effect, they would ban vending machines and self service displays, expand all regulations to include nicotine delivery devices, ban of tobacco sales in educational institutions, ban roll your own cigarette machines and ban blunt wraps.
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While tobacco sales in educational institutions are now banned, health care institutions are not. The regulations would also not ban coupon redemptions.
They would also leave the current fine structure alone. Currently, there are no changes proposed for the regulations that would affect increase the minimum age of sale, as Walpole did recently.
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New regulations would also allow the board to institute tobacco sale license suspensions on a case-by-case basis.
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