A grass roots movement to raise the legal age for buying cigarettes and other tobacco products to 21 years from 18 is gaining traction, shaping up as the next serious challenge to the $100 billion U.S. tobacco industry. Jonathan Winickoff, associate professor of pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, is mentioned.
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