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From Lewis, Barry < BLewis@yarmouth.ma.us >
Date Thu 2026-04-09 4:47 PM
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Good afternoon [,4r. Lewis
My name is DJ Wilson and I have been retired from my position as Tobacco Control Director at the l\,4ass. Municipal
Association for about three years now. I retired soon after Brookline was the first town to enact a Niicotine Free
Generation policy.
A number of our local and state tobacco policies over the last couple of decades have a start date that makes an
immediate impact on a handful of businesses. Going smokefree in workplaces had a certain start date for restaurants
and bars, requiring tobacco sales permits also had a deadline to acquire one for all tobacco retailers and banning
vending machines usually provided a hard start date to which the machines had to be removed from establishments.
This policy is different in the gradual way it would affect nicotine retailers. Each year would produce another year's
worth of residents that would be unable to purchase nicotine products. I am not a data specialist but have made anattempt below to IgugIly calculate the number of Yarmouth residents yearly who would no longer be eligible topurchase these products should this policy be enacted. Below is my stab at this starting with iarmouth having 27licensed vendors and a population of about 25,000:
' The latest state statistic indicates thal14.7% of Massachusetts adults use a nicotine product (cigarette, cigar,vape, etc.).
' This means that in Yarmouth, approximately 3,675 Yarmouth residents (25,000 x i4.7o/o) use a nicotine product(though the town's use percentage may differ from the state,s percentage ).' l've used the ages 21 to 8'1 which covers a 60-year stretch of smokers irom the legal minimum age of 21 yearsold.. Dividing the 3,675 into those 60 years (3,675 * 60) would indicate that there are about 62 yarmouth nicotineusers in each of those ages.
' using that number, this wourd indicate that every year about 62 rocal nicotine users become ,,regar,,.
' Dividing that number among your 27 tobacco sales permittees (62+ 27) would indicate an average number offewer than 3 new nicotine customers per permittee ,nnr"iiy. ri,i, ,rt"" t"i i ""rv 6*, iia juat rate orpotential customer loss annually.
Thanks for contemplating this policy and if you have any questions, please contact me at this email.
DJ Wilson
168 Great Neck Road
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From: DJ Wilson <wilsondj@yma il.com>
Sent: Thursday, 09 April 2025 76:37 44
To: Lewis, Barry <BLewis@ya rmouth. ma.us>
Subiect: N icoh ne Free Generation
Wareham, MA 02571