ny tobacco age The average of a new smoker in New York is just 13 years old. Source: https://health.data.ny.gov/Health/Youth-Tobacco-Survey-Beginning-2000/pbq7-ddg9 280,000 of New York's youth now under 18 are projected to die prematurely from smoking Photos: New York's new smoking

On April 28, just days before the FDA released its final ruling deeming e-cigs as tobacco products, the UKs Royal College of Physicians released a 200-page report titled Nicotine without smoke: Tobacco harm reduction which stated their view on e-cigs as a safer alternative to tobacco with great potential in helping smokers quit

Cigarette smoke induces vasomotor dysfunction, inflammation and modification of lipids

It may raise the chance of lung disease

Those opposing trends suggest not only that more vaping does not result in more smoking but that teenagers who otherwise would be smoking are instead vaping, a much less dangerous habit

We need some puffs from whoever has them

You could imagine that the Sunset Boulevard plot could have been the basis for a genuinely tragic narrative in the mode of A Star is Born