Board Of Aldermen

AMENDED
O-19-037

ORDINANCE

RAISING THE AGE TO PURCHASE, SELL, OR DISTRIBUTE TOBACCO PRODUCTS
AND E-CIGARETTES FROM EIGHTEEN (18) TO TWENTY-ONE (21)

CITY OF NASHUA

In the Year Two Thousand and Nineteen

The City of Nashua ordains that Part II “General Legislation” of the Nashua Revised
Ordinances as amended, is hereby further amended by adding the following new underlined
Chapter 304 entitled “Tobacco Products and E-Cigarettes”’:

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Chapter 304
TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND E-CIGARETTES

These incipient feelings of physical addiction lead to the body wanting more and more of that
which caused such a great rush or “high” in the first place. Thus, smoking, chewing, or vaping
activities increase to sustain this powerful sensation of feeling great!

4/9/19
Re: O-19-037
Dear Honorable Nashua Board of Alderman,

Due to a prior family commitment for this evening, | am writing to apologize in advance for my
inability to personally attend this important meeting about raising the purchase of tobacco
products to the age of 21 (that would include all tobacco-related items such as cigarettes,
cigars, chewing tobacco, and electronic vaping devices).

+ Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, The Toll of Tobacco in New Hampshire, updated June 20, 2018,
https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/facts_issues/toll_us/new_hampshire.

et

American American

SUPPORT Tobacco21 Heart | Stroke

Association | Association-
life is why

The American Heart Association supports efforts in the City of Nashua to pass an ordinance to raise the legal sale age
for tobacco from 18 to 21 years. This initiative will reduce tobacco use among young people, save lives and help
make the next generation tobacco-free!

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Alderwoman Kelly

If we are going backwards, Paul Shea just said to remind people that you have to bring your own rakes and
gloves and stuff on Saturday.

Vice President O’Brien

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an age just because of the age. Like when you drink a beer, your choosing to drink the beverage but you’re
not choosing when you get drunk or how drunk you are; that’s just happening as a chemical process. So |
felt the need to point that out but there was never really an opening for it.

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Department of Public Works has told me that they cannot afford to clean up the roads, even on land owned
by the City. They say they can’t afford to clean that. So it’s up to us residents as volunteers to do it. The
Department will provide us with gloves and bags and we can just leave the bags of trash and they will come
and pick it up. So look forward to that and | encourage all the other Aldermen to do something similar in
their Wards so we can help keep the City neat and clean. Thank you.

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without an apparently screening process at all. So | don’t think we are living up to our policy and | think it
affects the quality of the work and the process and the product that we deliver here out of City Hall.