Raise age to buy cigarettes to 21
Laurence Steinberg,
Special to CNN
April 18, 2011 1:56 p.m. EDT
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Laurence Steinberg: Decline in teen smoking has stalled; rate for younger teens may be rising
This despite anti-smoking education, restrictions on ads, higher costs, he writes
Steinberg: Raising legal age to buy tobacco to 21 would help get it out of circulation
Smoking the leading preventable cause of death, he says, and smokers get hooked as teens
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