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Teens ask town to hike tobacco age

Brookline students say 19 should be minimum to buy

By Brock Parker

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 15, 2012

An effort lead by high school students in Brookline could soon raise the legal age to buy tobacco products in the town from 18 years old to 19 years old. The effort is being spearheaded by Brookline High School Senior Eric Dumas and fellow students in the school’s peer leadership program who will ask Brookline’s Town Meeting in May to increase the minimum age to buy tobacco products, including cigarettes, to 19 years old within town lines.

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