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Big Tobacco’s surprising new campaign to raise the smoking age

Big Tobacco and its legion of lobbyists, which for years fought efforts to raise the legal age to buy smoking and vaping products, mysteriously changed their tune in statehouses this year, instead arguing the age should be upped from 18 to 21. Pushed by industry giants Altria, Reynolds American and Juul Labs, the maker of […]