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Editorial: New rules for nicotine  

Given how deadly tobacco products are known to be, an outright ban on smoking may seem less hypocritical than regulation. But it would have been politically impossible to achieve. And in any case, it would have simply driven smokers into an underground black market.

Though it has taken a long time, social attitudes toward tobacco use in this country have changed. Today, just one American in five smokes. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that, over the next decade, the new law will cut youth smoking by 11 percent and adult smoking by about 2 percent. It may not be perfection, but it certainly sounds like progress.

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