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Following its flavor ban in 2020, Massachusetts saw cigarette excise taxAn excise tax is a tax imposed on a specific good or activity

Health professionals say smoking onscreen has a direct impact on teen tobacco use In a 2012 report on preventing smoking and tobacco use among both youth and young adults, the Office of the Surgeon General identified a causal relationship between depictions of smoking in the movies and the initiation of smoking among young persons. The report concluded that youth and young adults who are more heavily exposed to onscreen smoking are around two to three times as likely to start smoking as those who receive less exposure

We should do everything in our power to stop this devastating habit, she told her House colleagues during a debate last year

The average smoker has tried to quit six to nine times, and the quit rate only reaches 15-30 percent with more effective interventions such as behavioral and pharmacological therapies [16]