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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every store should be pressured to stop selling cigarettes.  It would be a big public health improvement.  I'm not advocating a ban; just make tobacco completely unavailable or too costly for anyone to have.[/quote]

OMG, aren't they like 10 bucks a pack now?  I really don't know how anyone can afford that habit as is.  I can't imagine that too many people are picking up that habit now..[/quote]

No.  $5.80 in VA.  But $14.50 in NYC, and pricing does make a difference, esp. for the adoption of smoking by teens.

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$5.80 a pack would be a prohibitive amount for most teens (at least the ones I'm around) - a pack a day would cost over 40 bucks a week, $160 a month.  I would think that only hard core smokers are buying cigarettes now days.[/quote]

19% of adults in Virginia.[/quote]

Yes, I'm aware that people still smoke.  But what percentage of them are NEW smokers, though.  I'd love to see an age break down because I'm guessing that majority are over 35 years old.[/quote]

13% of HS students in va. http://www.vfhy.org/statistics/tobacco/numbers[/quote]

13%? Define "smoker" - does that mean "I am an habitual, pack a day smoker"  or "I had a cigarette at a party one time" or "Every once in a while I'll bum a cigarette from a friend"

Where are they getting these numbers from?  School surveys?  Because I have a hard time believing that 13% of HS kids in FFX County are smokers. All those hours in school plus after school activities on school grounds - when would they have time?

Smoking is not even allowed on school grounds...and most addicted smokers would have a hard time going that long between smokes.  That number sounds inflated to me..[/quote]

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