BOSTON — Smokers must be at least 21 to buy a pack of cigarettes in Andover, North Andover, Methuen and more than a dozen other communities north of Boston, under local regulations passed in recent years.
Underage smokers, however, need only travel a few miles to nearby towns where the minimum age to buy tobacco products is still 18.
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