TRENTON — An increasing number of teenagers nationwide are turning to Botox to improve their looks, studies show, a practice some state lawmakers say is disturbing enough to ban.
An Assembly panel today advanced a bill that would make it illegal for people under 18 to use Botox, a brand name for a botulism toxin, for cosmetic purposes.
Assemblywoman Cleopatra Tucker (D-Essex) introduced the bill in February, after seeing news accounts of teenagers using the toxin. She asked the Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee to act on it yesterday after seeing a television report about a San Francisco woman who said she injects her 8-year-old daughter with it for beauty pageants.
As it turns out, the website TMZ
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