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Food and Drug Administration has approved treatments to help quit smoking

Lighting up has also been banned for years on Athens hospital, public school and public library campuses

With more people making the switch to vaping, cigarettes are being ditched for e-cigs instead

In addition to the health risks for smokers, secondhand smoke also contributes to thousands of deaths annually among non-smokers, further extending the reach of tobaccos harmful effects

He and another physician, Jonathan Winickoff, point to recent neuroscientific evidence showing that adolescent brains are more susceptible to the addictive qualities of nicotine, making teenagers likely to become addicted to the drug more quickly while smoking less often than adults