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Hiking tobacco taxes will help tame America's most enduring epidemic

Hiking tobacco taxes will help tame America's most enduring epidemic

CNN
Monday, October 04, 2021 12:03:23 PM UTC

Marie Cocco writes that alongside the Covid-19 pandemic, tobacco use continues to plague the nation as a major threat to public health.

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