cigarette inventor Hon Lik, of the Electronic Poster This Black Inventor Changed Smoking

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He added that had the age been 21 when he took up the habit, I guarantee I wouldnt be smoking today. But cigarette manufacturers have suggested young adult smokers may just turn to black-market merchants

Briefly Kansas House agrees to raise legal smoking age to 21 Cigarette brands are displayed at a tobacco shop on July 11, 2014, in San Francisco

Their hesitance to effectively curtail tobacco production and consumption is driven primarily by the fact that the tobacco industry is one of the largest sources of tax revenue for the Chinese government