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Let's clamp down on Tobacco and vaping Product access for young people

Westside Gazette - 3/30/2019

Nearly half a million people die every year from complications from smoking. About a tenth of them never put a cigarette to their lips - they die from exposure to second-hand smoke. Death from tobacco is, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the leading us. cause of preventable death. But too many people, enticed by advertising, think that smoking is so "cool" that they embrace it.

And the tobacco industry spent more than $9 billion on smoking advertising, or about a million dollars an hour.

For too many, cigarettes are a desperate addiction, encouraged by pernicious advertising. The

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