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The North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force (CFTF), a working group dedicated to studying the causes of infant and child mortality, has released its annual report for 2025, highlighting the urgent need to address smoking and vaping among young people as a major public health issue. The report proposes several key recommendations, including raising the legal age for selling tobacco and other nicotine products to 21 and implementing mandatory sales licenses for all tobacco retailers.

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The Dutch government is taking decisive action to address the growing problem of youth smoking and vaping by proposing a series of stringent measures aimed at curbing nicotine addiction among young people. At the heart of the new proposal from the Ministry of Health is a plan to raise the legal age for purchasing cigarettes and vapes from 18 to 21.

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