[9] A 2016 analysis of data from the 19992013 National Youth Tobacco Surveys suggests that the ban reduced adolescent cigarette useboth probability of smoking a cigarette and number of cigarettes used by smokersalthough there was an increase in adolescent use of menthols, smokeless tobacco, flavored cigars, and pipes, suggesting substitution towards the remaining legal flavored tobacco products
Smokeless tobacco is a form of tobacco product that is not burned or smoked
Benowitz N.L., Jacob III P., and Denaro C
But, although many stopped when still relatively young and healthy during the 1950s and '60s, some who stopped in later middle age did so because they were already ill (table 2)
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