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Explaining the reason for the state-wide ban, Andrew Cuomo said: "These products are marketed as a healthier alternative to cigarettes but the reality is they also carry long-term risks to the health of users and those around them

"But I think here in Canada we're ripe for this sort of policy to make a real difference, simply because there's a good understanding that we never want our kids to have the ability to purchase tobacco products." Canada is considered a world leader in its efforts to phase out smoking, having pioneered measures such as graphic images of tobacco's health effects on cigarette packets, which first appeared in 2000

We will enforce the current guidelines for each event at the time of the event.

After all, when used exactly as its manufacturers intended, tobacco kills up to half its users, making cigarettes the deadliest object in the history of human civilization

The number of children under 16 who regularly smoke has halved to 3% since 2007 the lowest figure on record