More than 100 cities in the US have banned the sale of smoking and tobacco products to individuals under 21 years old. Cleveland is among the cities that think the new move will stop young people from becoming addicted to cigarettes and tobacco.

Cleveland has banned tobacco and e-cigarette sales to people under the age of 21. The hope there is that it will stop teens from becoming addicted to cigarettes. Is Columbus next? The move has city leaders and small businesses thinking.

Over 80 communities in Massachusetts have announced to increase the legal age. Now, state teens should be over the age of 18 to buy cigarettes, said Donald J. Wilson, director of the Massachusetts Municipal Association.

The Boston Public Health Commission will vote on the issue on December 17. It will decide whether to follow same laws on smoking. Currently, there are no legal issues to the changes in Massachusetts. But a northern Californian town Healdsburg a letter from the National Association of Tobacco Outlets after it announced to increase legal age for tobacco to 21 last year.

Healdsburg’s law, which is unlike Cleveland's new tobacco law, doesn’t charge retailers for selling tobacco and smoking products to people under 21. The law only cancels the retailer’s license. Both, Cleveland and Healdsburg, do not punish a buyer, but only sellers.

The trend to increase legal age to buy tobacco products started in 2013 when New York City announced to raise the age to 21. Some opponents criticized the move by saying the people are old enough to decide whether they should smoke or not. Missouri and Kansas City were the next to raise the legal age limit to 21.