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Stores from Melbourne to Ballarat, selling illegal tobacco and vapes, have been torched by rival gangs vying for control of what's become a very lucrative black market

(These rates are likely too high because they are based on cases doctors knew about, while they may never have seen people with mild disease.) Another small Chinese study of 78 patients with pneumonia found that smokers were 14 times more likely to deteriorate over two weeks than nonsmokers

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The Los Angeles Times reported senior officials determined after meetings with more than 100 tobacco lobbyists and small business advocates in 46 days that the economic impact on vape shops would outweigh the health benefits of a ban

Later, they shifted to a product-based model to reach more people