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West Monroe Representative Wants To Raise Smoking Age
When the argument was raging about the legal drinking age, those for keeping it at 18 used the motto, "Old enough to fight and vote, old enough to drink and smoke." Nevertheless, in 1984 Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which required states to raise their legal drinking ages to 21 by October 1986 or lose 10% of their federal highway funds...
Lung Cancer Is Officially No Longer Just a ‘Smoker’s Disease’
Lung Cancer Is Officially No Longer Just a ‘Smoker’s Disease’
Lung Cancer Is Officially No Longer Just a ‘Smoker’s Disease’
While most cases of lung cancer occur in smokers, nearly 20 percent of cases strike those who’ve never touched a cigarette. When it comes down to the facts, 32,000 nonsmoking Americans die from lung cancer every year — so many that experts say it’s time to stop calling it “the smoker’s disease.”