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Medicine’s Erika Trapl discussed declining tobacco usage among youth

Increasing age limits on tobacco cuts down on teen smoking, CWRU researchers say

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WEWS: Erika Trapl, associate professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at the School of Medicine and director of the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, discussed her new research showing that tobacco use in adolescents declined in youth following legislative changes to the legal age for tobacco sales.