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Young people

Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers… If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle”… RJ Reynolds (1984)

Almost everyone knows that smoking causes cancer, emphysema and heart disease; that it can shorten your life by many years; and that the habit can cost a smoker thousands of euros a year. So how come people are still lighting up? The answer, in a word, is addiction.

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Staying smoke free
Am I hooked?
Your health
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