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Randomized experiments have shown that smoking in films affects short-term attitudes and that anti-smoking advertisements shown prior to films with smoking diminish those effects

1,2,3 Lighting up creates even more chemicals

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Of this $1.1 trillion cost burden pulmonary disease and lung cancer account for $154 billion

Stories like that of eleven-year-old Crystal Grendellwhose case brought a civil suit after police raided her home and arrested her pot-smoking parents based on intel three DARE officers coerced out of a child who was told nothing would happen to her mom and dadsnowballed, along with increasing reports of DAREs long-term ineffectiveness, the habit of using asset forfeiture to finance the program, and scandals where former DARE officers were charged for prescription drug theft, child pornography, and assault of a minor