Smokefree Brookline
Phone 617-730-2300;
Education Quitting
By-Law
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DESCRIPTION
Smokefree Brookline is the Town's tobacco education resource center. Its concerns include
tobacco use prevention, youth access to tobacco, treatment, and enforcement. It provides
education, consultation, monitoring, follow-up on complaints, and assistance with quitting
tobacco. Smokefree Brookline is part of the Smokefree Communities Project: the Brookline,
Milton, Newton, Waltham and Wellesley health departments’ tobacco education programs. |
Education
- Risks of tobacco use (smoking and spit tobacco)
- Dangers of secondhand smoke to fetuses, children, and adults
Many brochures and other written materials, no smoking decals, and posters are
available free of charge from Smokefree Brookline. Videos are available on loan.
Quitting Tobacco
- Information on methods of quitting
- How to do it alone
- How to stay off tobacco
- Referrals to treatment programs
Promotion
- World No Tobacco Day -- every May 31st (sponsored by the World Health
Organization)
- Great American Smokeout -- annually on the third Thursday in November
Town Tobacco Control By-law
(See Article 8.22, Tobacco Control, for details)
In Brookline, the following are smokefree by Town law:
- Restaurants and lounges
- Public places and retail establishments
- Most worksites
Tobacco retailers must have permits to sell tobacco. They are periodically monitored to
determine whether they are selling tobacco to minors.
Under state law, it is illegal to give or sell tobacco to a minor (under 18) unless the
minor is one's own child.
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