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Smoking ban can’t keep “big tobacco” from targeting new smokers

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Anti-tobacco advocates are celebrating today’s start of a law banning smoking in most public places in Wisconsin. But some advocates worry that the tobacco industry will continue to pressure racial minorities, to start smoking.Chuck Quirmbach reports…

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