The researchers specifically note that adolescents who enter puberty at an early age have statistically increased chances of developing drug or alcohol problems at some later point in life.
Tobacco companies are likely to challenge the decision in court
Last year, the Government admitted that the popularity of electronic cigarettes was taking a toll on the national budget, with taxes from tobacco dropping by 6.1% (-455 million), and the new tax was meant to compensate for the loss
While estimates from the NHIS for total smoking are relatively consistent with our modeled estimates based on BRFSS data, there is still room for further research into why these two data sources are not more closely aligned
Adam Butterworth reports grants from Merck and Pfizer and grants outside of this work from AstraZeneca, Biogen, and Novartis, and personal fees from Novartis
Not everyone will have people, decades from now, talking about where they were when Ozzie brought in the big boy
