“In 2019 Connecticut’s largest city raised the age limit for smoking from 18 to 21, and the entire state followed a few months later. Now local officials and activists are hoping history repeats itself as they pursue banning the sale of all flavored tobacco products in Bridgeport while also lobbying the General Assembly in Hartford to pass similar legislation. On Friday at 11 a.m. Nieves, state Sen. Marilyn Moore, D-Bridgeport, Greater Bridgeport NAACP President Rev. Stanley Lord and representatives from Bridgeport Hospital and the American Cancer Society will host an 11 a.m. teleconference to promote the effort. Then Nieves will introduce the local ban at Monday’s regular council meeting and ask her colleagues to vote to forward it to the ordinance committee for consideration and a public hearing. Should it pass, supporters said, Bridgeport would be the first Connecticut municipality to enact such a restriction.”
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