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And this force has become sufficient to help reverseagainst all the money and the machinery of mass persuasion and the commercial and political influence of a most formidable American industry, against the vast inertia of government, even against the habituation, reluctant or otherwise, of millions of regular smokersthe growth of a vast and, it once seemed, almost universally accepted and apparently ineradicable personal custom

They include national bans on cigarette advertising on television and radio (1971), smoking on commercial flights (2000), sale of fruit- or candy-flavored cigarettes (2009), and sale of cigarettes to people ages 18 to 20 (2019)

The study was commissioned by the Department of Health and drew on data from two major sources: the British Doctors Study, launched in 1951 as one of the world's first large-scale investigations into the effects of smoking, and the Million Women Study, which has been monitoring womens health since 1996.

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