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A further 10 states had statewide bans with carve-outs for certain venues

A mathematician by training, Berrick developed a personal interest in tobacco policies and was one of a group of researchers who floated the TFG idea in a 2010 paper

During my time at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), we created and implemented the Departments first ever Tobacco Control Strategic Action Plan entitled Ending the Epidemic. In the era of the new Affordable Care Act, the plan helped unite HHS in leveraging FDAs new tobacco control authority

But although cigarettes might be inseparable from nicotine, nicotine is not inseparable from cigarettes

By the end of the century, the FDA predicts, 4.3 million fewer people would die because of cigarettes