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Well, for one thing, there are more than 5,000 chemical components in cigarette smoke, and hundreds of those are harmful to health

This is partly because even though California has one of the lowest smoking rates in the nation at about 13 percent (I believe Utah is the only state lower), the state represents about 11 percent of the population of the country, so even with a low smoking rate, California represents a huge chunk of the national tobacco market

New York has already taken drastic steps to curtail youth smoking in recent years including raising the minimum legal age to purchase tobacco to 21

However, even in these states, it is illegal to smoke while driving