https://www.courthousenews.com/massachusetts-court-puzzles-over-lifetime-tobacco-ban-for-gen-z/

"A Boston suburb’s controversial bylaw that prohibits tobacco sales to anyone born in 2000 or later — forever, no matter how old they get — puzzled the Massachusetts Supreme Court at oral arguments Monday.

The town of Brookline implemented the first-of-its-kind restriction in 2021 with the goal of phasing out smoking entirely by making it illegal to sell tobacco to an entire generation, for their entire lifetimes.

But it wasn’t clear if the bylaw was valid under a 2018 state statute that raised the smoking age in Massachusetts to 21 and prohibited any local rules that are “inconsistent” with it."