MILFORD, Mass. - Several more municipalities in Massachusetts have approved or are thinking of approving bans on tobacco products in drug stores, the MetroWest Daily News reports. So far, the boards of health in Wellesley and Southborough have passed tobacco bans for drug stores and grocery stores that have pharmacies.

Towns considering similar bans include Westborough, Shrewsbury, Northborough and Milford, according to the Central Massachusetts Tobacco Free Committee Partnership, which is pushing for drugstore tobacco bans as a way to halt smoking in youths. "Pharmacies are supposed to be promoting healthy products," said Tina Grosowsky, project coordinator for the partnership.

"We don??t want health care institutions promoting a product that kills people," said Southborough Board of Health Chairman Louis Fazen of the ban approved in 2010. "No one who??s involved in health care should be a purveyor of our No. 1 enemy."

In Uxbridge, enough citizens opposed the ban that the city??s board of health rescinded it, said Peter Baghdasarian, a member of the board of health who opposed the ban. "I absolutely detest smoking," he said. "Back when they had smoking in restaurants, I wouldn??t sit at a table with an ashtray. However, it was my choice."

However, a ban on which stores can sell tobacco products has " no logical ending point," he said. "You can say government should dictate when and how we eat."