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...affair is uncomfortably reminiscent -- as the scientists admit -- of the 1960s, when researchers theorized that carriers of an extra Y, or male, chromosome were predisposed to criminality, or of earlier attempts to read character from the bumps on people's skulls. As any doctor who ever testified for a tobacco company in one of those trials knows, the statistical association of two things, like smoking and cancer, or guns and murders, does not necessarily imply cause and effect. We know too little about the biochemical cocktail that is the brain, and all too much about how stigmatized children live down...
Legislating on a community level is usually easier, Andersen said, because tobacco companies do not get involved with local ordinances...
...also said the city should pass an ordinance similar to one in Somerville which requires stores to buy a permit to sell tobacco...
...Permits would allow health departments to know where all tobacco outlets in a community are," Andersen said. A list of tobacco sellers would enable law enforcement to monitor illegal tobacco sales to minors more strictly, she added...
...Vending machine sales are only two percent of tobacco sales in Massachusetts," said Mark A. Gottlieb, staff attorney for the Tobacco Products Liability Project at Northeastern University. "But a significant percent age of those sales are illegal sales to minors...