Greg Abbott signed the bill, Texas became the 16th state to raise the legal age to purchase tobacco
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Introduction Cigarette smoking has been the predominant nicotine delivery system in the USA for over a century,1 but, among adolescents, it has recently been replaced by e-cigarette vaping.2 Tobacco use usually begins between the ages of 12 and 24 years,3 with most people starting between ages 14 and 17 years.1 After the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), a legal settlement to resolve lawsuits filed by US State Attorneys General against the tobacco industry,4 there was a long-term decline in adolescent cigarette smoking.1 The MSA resulted in nationwide implementation of three of the six MPOWER tobacco control strategies recommended by WHO to reduce smoking5: to warn the population about harms of cigarette smoking, to propose and enforce new advertising restrictions and to raise cigarette prices.6 The implementation of advertising restrictions had an immediate effect in reducing adolescent receptivity to tobacco advertising, a validated predictor of initiation.7 E-cigarettes were introduced in the USA in 2007.8 From 2013 to 2015, past 30-day e-cigarette vaping increased threefold in national surveys of high school students.9 Some adolescents who started vaping subsequently switched to cigarette smoking.1012 More recently, e-cigarette vaping surged with the introduction of a new generation of high-nicotine e-cigarettes13 that used fruit and candy flavourings,1416 and many adolescents have become dependent on daily vaping.17 18 From August 2019 until February 2020, there was widespread news coverage of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-reported outbreak of E-cigarette and Vaping Associated Lung Injury (EVALI) and this was associated with changed risk perceptions of e-cigarette vaping in youth and young adults,19 20 which should be associated with reduced initiation.21 Lifelong cigarette smoking harms nearly every organ of the body and reduces life expectancy by ~10 years,2224 although there is a long latency period.25 There are well-established biomarkers for disease from cigarette smoking26 and a developing list of biomarkers for potential disease from e-cigarettes,2729 although none reach the criteria needed to be markers of clinical disease onset,30 nor considered adequate to be included in screening modalities for lung cancer.31 Despite this uncertainty, some have used such biomarkers to predict future disease risk, suggesting that e-cigarettes are much safer than cigarettes.32 This idea has gained some acceptance in the context of adult cigarette smokers who switch from smoking cigarettes to e-cigarette vaping.8 Recently, Sun et al 33 argued that this concept should be extended to adolescent tobacco use, suggesting that, for health policy purposes, the high prevalence of adolescent e-cigarette vaping should be discounted by the presumed lower risk of health consequences compared with cigarette smoking
