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Tobacco companies are beating governments’ efforts to stop smoking worldwide
WEDNESDAY, July 21, 2021 (CNN op-ed)—It is no secret that adolescents are easily addicted to cigarettes. But recent research published in the Lancet provides a stark reminder: a majority of the more than 1 billion smokers globally became addicted by the end of their teenage years. Over the past two decades, one out of every five smokers globally became addicted to nicotine by age 15.
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