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No wonder so many people find quitting an up-hill battle

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If you are limited in your life about the types of things you can do for fun because of your income or disability, Leventhal explained, it is understandable why you would turn to a product that instantly and reliably delivers pleasure, like a cigarette. Yet instead of addressing the social determinants and structural drivers of smoking to bring down the numbers of smokerswhich means ongoing investments into physical and mental health care, drug treatment, housing, and jobs with a living wagewere offered a ban that costs the government nothing and doesnt address root causes, along with a hefty dose of paternalism and menthol shaming

The devices could also be an attempt to re-normalize smoking, which has reached historically low rates among teens and is now at 6 percent