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Remember, there is no safe level of tobacco use

Although Cristopher Columbus brought with him a few tobacco leaves and seeds back to Europe, most Europeans didn't get their first taste of the plant until the mid-16th century, when adventurers and diplomats like France's Jean Nicot for whom nicotine is named began to popularize its use

(Tobacco giant and Juul investor Altria also supports the move.) Raising the buying age could take regulatory pressure off tobacco companies in other areas, like flavored e-cigarettes, which have been banned in three states and several municipalities, including New York City as of this week

These tobacco products and the principle of smoking are similar, but there are also many differences

Emails obtained by Reason through public records requests reveal the extent that CDPH funds and collaborates with campaigns for tobacco prohibition: sharing confidential data with favored activists, recruiting its own employees to design political messaging, and celebrating the passage of local tobacco bans as "victories," all under the guise of public health "education." The Registered Lobbyist on California's Public Health Payroll "Endgame" is the anti-tobacco movement's melodramatic term for prohibiting all commercial tobacco products: cigarettes, cigars, nicotine pouches, e-cigarettes, hookahs, pipe tobacco, and heated tobacco products