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A report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) strongly concluded that raising the tobacco age at the national level would significantly reduce the number of adolescents and young adults who start smoking and reduce smoking-related deaths

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The number of cigarette smokers around the world has declined gradually over the past few decades due to the association of tobacco smoke with a wide variety of diseases and illnesses