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taxes. Kenneth Warner, professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health who has studied tobacco for twenty years, says, “Price is a significant factor in all products -- as price rises, demand goes down” (Tanamachi n.p.). Other experts believe the tobacco industry’s marketing and advertising should be banned because they manipulate adolescents. Ken August, spokesperson for the California Department of Health, believes, “You can’t tell young people they’re going to get sick...but when you tell them they’re being used by adults -- that really gets through” (Tanamachi n.p.). President Clinton agrees that marketing for tobacco should be stopped, but he also is convinced that passing tobacco legislation that will reduce teen smoking and benefit the well-being of American kids will help the smoking dilemma as well. Unfortunately, with the tobacco industry’s strong, forty million dollar effort in lobbying, they ...

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For a typical pack-a-day habit, teens spend $700-$800 a year each. When a teenager learns that the actual cost for sustaining a cigarette addiction takes up almost four working hours a week at minimum wage, they might think of better ways for spending their money (Lang 75). Plus, adults who live below the poverty line are more likely to be smokers that those above the poverty line, according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. High school dropouts are also three times more likely to smoke than college graduates (Cooper n.p.). Instead of buying cigarettes, which also come with all sorts of breathing problems, odor problems, and aging boosters, a teen can buy sixty ...

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