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In major victories for anti-tobacco advocates, the California Assembly voted Thursday to raise the smoking age to 21, regulate electronic cigarettes as tobacco products and take a variety of other steps aiming to restrict access to tobacco

Tobacco companies are required to run an extensive television and newspaper advertising campaign, at their own expense, admitting the truth about their products

We can save countless lives and healthcare dollars if we tackle this problem by increasing the legal sale age of all tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, across Connecticut. One recently released report has given advocates added momentum - a Department of Public Health 2017 Youth Tobacco Survey indicates e-cigarette use has more than doubled by Connecticut high school students from 7.2 percent use in 2015 to 14.7 percent use in 2017

But all jokes aside, this only shows the prevalence of smoking amongst the nation

Indeed, smoking is the worlds leading cause of preventable illness and death