title: The tobacco wars: back to the states.
abstract: With the United States Senate's failure to pass comprehensive tobacco legislation, the fight to recover public health costs from big tobacco shifts back to the states. The question for those working to reduce youth smoking rates is whether that battle can be accomplished at the state level.
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authors: Benjamin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D015438:Health Behavior; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal / Q000191:economics; D011057:Politics; D013219:State Government; D019460:Tobacco Industry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D020340:Tobacco Use Cessation / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States