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By Alexei Koseff, CalMatters Three years ago, advocates for reducing smoking and vaping in California won a major victory when they persuaded the state Legislature to adopt a ban on the sale of flavored tobacco products despite an intense industry lobbying campaign

He was just lying in pain for two days

Although some variation in taste was possible via blending tobaccos from different sources (Egypt, Turkey, the American South), cigarettes are to a considerable extent a commodity

In the US, tobacco use is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year

And many millions more were hospitalized with a variety of smoking-related illnesses that did not kill them but severely compromised their quality of life