Spurred by these new laws, Brian King, deputy director for research translation, Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and three of his colleagues, surveyed more than 4,200 Americans for their thoughts on raising the minimum age for purchasing tobacco to 21
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"For youth who experiment by 'borrowing' a cigarette from a friend, it's going to mean they will see the cigarettes even if they may not see the package where the warnings appear," Cunningham said in a telephone interview
And a whole lot of those cigarette butts are ending up as trash - the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimates that around 4.5 trillion of the 6 trillion cigarettes smoked every year end up littered in the environment
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