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Maddox, who is running for the Cambridge School Committee, is currently collecting signatures to put a referendum on the state-wide ballot in 1996 which would raise the minimum age in the Bay State to purchase cigarettes from 18 to 21 and would force cigarettes to be nicotine-free...
...order to put an initiative on the ballot, organizers need to collect 65,000 signatures. This process is costly and can take a lot of time, according to Maddox...
Maddox, who was one of the chief sponsors of Question 9, a ballot initiative last year which ended rent control in Cambridge, said that while his effort to get the referendum on the ballot might not be successful in 1996, he is confident that by 1998, the smoking initiative will be on the ballot...
...Next year will be a dry run. But with some financial backing, we hope to have it on the ballot in 1998," said Maddox, who is also the co-chair of the Small Property Owners Association in Cambridge...
Maddox, who is just beginning to collect signatures, said that ballot questions provide ordinary citizens the opportunity to shape policy in the state...