Worse, the proposed ban would promote illegal production and distribution, inviting a law enforcement response that would disproportionately hurt the people the agency claims it is trying to helpa point the FDA implicitly concedes by alluding to the policy's "racial and social justice implications." Mandating a reduction in nicotine content to "minimally" addictive or "non-addictive" levels, which the FDA says it will propose, likewise raises obvious problems
But the popularity of vaping is now credited with introducing more teens to tobacco in the past few years: traditional cigarette use among high school students has risen to 8.1% this year from 7.6% in 2016, according to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions annual National Youth Tobacco Survey, reversing a year-over-year decline that started in 1997
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Clearly, the problem of cigarette smoking remains one of the most critical public health issues of our time
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