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Some Massachusetts towns are trying to say goodbye to tobacco — forever
BROOKLINE, Mass. — The idea was ingenious, Richard Lopez thought: a slow but relentless way to phase out tobacco for good. Lopez chairs the board of health in Reading, Mass., a town of 25,000 north of Boston. Last month, the board adopted a regulation to …