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Who forced cigarette companies to run anti-smoking ads?

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House Speaker Paul Ryan discusses health care reform (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The American Health Care Act would lead to more smoking, disease and tobacco industry profits

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Cutting smoking reduces heart attacks (Mark Fairey)

No doubt about it: smokefree laws cut heart attacks in big way

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A man smokes a cigarette Tuesday, March 1, 2016, in San Francisco. Officials will vote Tuesday on whether to increase the minimum age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21 in San Francisco, even as opponents argue that cities and counties cannot trump California law. If the measure is approved, San Francisco would join Boston, New York City and Hawaii in raising the minimum age to buy cigarettes and other tobacco products. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) (AP)

California undermines Big Tobacco, raising the cigarette tax by $2 in the state

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