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In Minnesota, raising the legal sale age to 21 would have a one-time effect of preventing over 3,300 young Minnesotans from starting to smoke, according to a January 2017 Minnesota Medicine article

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Sweden was among the first to protest, calling the proposal "completely unacceptable." Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson reiterated that "the revenue must remain with individual countries, not end up in the hands of European bureaucracy." It's no coincidence that the reaction is so harsh: in Sweden, the spread of snus, smokeless sachets of tobacco, has helped reduce the smoking rate from 15% to 5% and brought mortality from smoking-related diseases down to levels 54% below the EU average.