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Forty-eight million Americans smoked in 1997 which is equivalent to about twenty-five percent of the nation’s adult population, according to a U.S. government survey released in November, 1999 (Cooper n.p.). According to Michael Ericksen, director of the Ce ....

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.... Many people believe in many different solutions. Experts say the only proven way to reduce smoking is to raise the price of cigarettes, through increased sales taxes. Kenneth Warner, professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health who has studied tobacco for twenty years, says, “Price is a significant factor in all products -- as price rises, demand goes down” (Tanamachi n.p.). Other experts believe the tobacco industry’s marketing and advertising should be banned because they manipulate adolescents. Ken August, spokesperson for the California Department of Health, believes, “You can’t tell young ....