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Adopted — November 3, 2025, by a vote of 3 to 0Dover's Board of Health adopted a Nicotine-Free Generation regulation on November 3, 2025 by a vote of 3 to 0. The Board had voted 2 to 1 in May to take the proposal up formally, and held two public hearings, in September and November. The rule took effect January 1, 2026.
The town released roughly 2,650 documents covering January 2023 through January 2026 — one of the fullest productions on this site. Because Dover produced its email correspondence in full, the file traces the proposal from the first message that raised it to the vote that enacted it.
That first message did not come from a Dover resident. It came from outside the town, from someone who had already passed the same policy elsewhere and said so plainly. Nine days after Dover adopted the rule, its own health director sent the whole package to another town.
A detailed analysis of Dover’s complete production, with document excerpts and sourcing.
The complete public-records production, as released by the custodian.
Every document below opens as a PDF. Files the custodian produced in other formats — Word, Excel, Outlook messages — were converted for readability, and the file as produced sits beside each one behind a small grey tag (.DOCX) so the original is always one click away. Nothing in the production has been withheld, compressed or edited: the file count above is every file the custodian released. A few archives and calendar files cannot be rendered as PDF and appear in their original format, marked as such.
