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Cigarettes and alcohol are also known to be gateway drugs, that is, the overwhelming majority of illegal drug users begin their use with one or both of these legal drugs. We have known about the link between cigarette smoking and alcohol use for a while, but we have not really asked the question, as the authors here asked, whether use of one could increase the vulnerability of becoming addicted to the other, said Kevin W Chen, associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine
While South Carolina, which was included in our last report, still has higher smoking prevalence than the national average, it did not consistently rate in the top 25% of smoking prevalence for states in the period we examined
This was a larger decline than that seen in control communities that did not adopt Tobacco 21 legislation
The trend is projected to persist in the coming years, with the population share expected to reduce to 22.01 % by 2024 , 21.4 % in 2026 , and eventually 20.53 % by 2029