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Although the epidemic of disease and death from smoking is played out in adulthood, it begins in childhood. Every day another 3000 young people become regular smokers.¹ A person who has not started smoking as a teenager is unlikely ever to become a smoker.² The tobacco industry has argued that the decision to smoke and to continue smoking is a free choice made by an adult, but nicotine addiction is really a condition that takes hold in young people.

Ask a smoker when he or she began to smoke, and chances are you will hear the tale of a child. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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