Nearly all tobacco use begins during youth and progresses during young adulthood.
Smoking by youth and young adults can cause serious and potentially deadly health issues immediately and into adulthood.
Exposure to nicotine can have lasting effects on adolescent brain development (CDC,2022).

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Cigarette advertising and marketing cause youth and young adults to start smoking; nicotine addiction keeps them smoking into adulthood.
Although direct marketing to children is now prohibited, the tobacco industry is still developing, packaging, and advertising their products in ways that appeal to children.
They promote new tobacco products such as bag-like pouch that enables kids to consume tobacco products at school, dissolvable tobacco in sticks and fruit and candy flavored smokeless and dissolvable tobacco products (CDC,2022).