Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press conference at City Hall yesterday afternoon, Patricia Andersen, policy and enforcement coordinator for the city's tobacco control program, announced that 22 percent of area merchants sold tobacco products to seven local teenagers sent undercover by the program last December...
Under policies approved by the Cambridge City Council last spring, all retailers who sell tobacco products must register with the city. Those who sell to minors can be slapped with fines or have their tobacco licenses revoked, Andersen said...
...Department of Health and Hospitals has held anti-smoking education programs at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, local elementary schools and youth centers across the city, said Lamar Sheridan, tobacco education grant manager...
...Tobacco manufacturers particularly single out young people because they know once you start, slowly you will become addicted to smoking and maybe something else later down the line," said Duehay, who is the city's acting mayor...
...tobacco control program is funded by a 25 cent tobacco tax which was approved by voters in a 1992 statewide referendum. The Cambridge Department of Health and Hospitals received $113,000 in state funds this year, Andersen said...