Unemployment is linked to declining self-reported health status, increased mortality rates for males and females ages 16-64, quadruple rates of drug and substance abuse and dependence, and double the chances of being diagnosed with a mental disorder such as depression or general anxiety disorder
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court sided with Brookline, noting that cities and towns "have a long history of regulating tobacco products to curb the well-known, harmful health effects of tobacco use." "It is important that state laws and local ordinances and by-laws can exist side by side and often do," the court added
While this is understood to include cigarettes, nicotine is also present in cigars, chewing tobacco and snuff, as well as numerous smoking-cessation products including gums, patches and inhalers
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