The Minimum Legal Age (MLA) to purchase, use, possess, sell and/or supply tobacco products will be implemented as follows: 19 years old on 1 January 2019
Curtailing smoking among these age groups is critical to winning the fight against tobacco and reducing the deaths, disease and health care costs it causes, said Susan M
Because of nicotines feel good effect on the brain, you may also have become accustomed to smoking as a way of coping with stress, depression, anxiety, or even boredom
However, Illinois Respiratory Health Association CEO Joel Africk urged the council not to reverse the ban, saying it risked reversing a 25 percent drop in the youth smoking rate during the past six years
Nature (2011)
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