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Nicotine & Tobacco Research 2004

According to the American Lung Association (ALA), raising the legal age for buying tobacco could go a long way towards combating nicotine addiction among young adults and children and curbing the rising use of vaping products

Smoke-free laws were also rapidly followed by a 24 percent decrease in hospitalizations for respiratory diseases, including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Philip Morris inserts from the 1950s promoted the cigarette that takes the FEAR out of smoking, while a Kent cigarette ad from 1964 claimed that no medical evidence or scientific endorsement has proven any other cigarette to be superior. Bolstered by these claims of protection, filtered cigarettes quickly took over the market amid the influx of new health studies in the 1950s