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Youth smoking is increasing, attorney general says 

The percentage youths taking up smoking is increasing in Missouri, Attorney General Jay Nixon said today in asking a judge to approve a $6.7 billion deal that includes the tobacco industry's agreement to stop targeting advertisements at young people.

By approving the settlement now, the state can start getting the money and see an end to what Nixon described as the ``insidious'' cartoon characters the tobacco industry uses to intice youngsters to smoking.

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