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Heavy taxes, advertising bans, plain packaging containing explicit health warnings, and a ban on smoking in public places has led to a decrease in smoking prevalence from 46% (1974) to 19% (2014) [4], and over 70% of the population now understand smoking to be a major cause of cancer compared with 40% in 1966 [5]

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Throughout this process, American policy makers did everything short of actually banning cigarettes themselves

While this list, and the PMTA list that the FDA still intends to publish, is a helpful guidance to retailers, it is not an end-all be-all in determining which products are legal to sell

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"Burden of Tobacco Use in the U.S." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention