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In San Antonio, 12.6% of male high school students and 9.9% of female high school students currently smoke

Op-Ed: Why a smoking age of 21 is a bad idea Share via When California lawmakers voted last week to raise the smoking age from 18 to 21, the debate featured optimistic rhetoric that fines and bans would sharply reduce the number of young adults buying or using tobacco

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We are now beginning to talk about hash and skunk and by the end of the evening we will be able to see where [the different strains] should sit. Sure enough, Professor Nutt concluded the programme by saying he would move hash to the bottom of his harm index, ranking it as safer than all of heroin, crack, meth, cocaine, tobacco, amphetamine, GHB, Benzobiazepines, ketamine and methadone

Denormalising the use of tobacco is necessary to shrink the influence and profitability of an industry that is as lethal as it is amoral

Tobacco companies pour millions into marketing, young people are exposed to these ads and try the products, addiction takes hold due to nicotine and other chemicals, and the companies continue targeting them, perpetuating a cycle of dependence