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At one time, tobacco companies would pay farmers to advertise their products on the sides of their barns.

This use rate has increased due to a few different factors. For example, cigars are currently not regulated by US laws and by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the same way that cigarettes are. As a result, cigar manufacturers can add various sweet or fruity flavors to their products that may appeal to young people, enticing them to smoke at an earlier age. And since cigars are not taxed as heavily as cigarettes, they are often cheaper, which makes them appealing to people with limited incomes, including many teenagers. Newer flavored cigar products are often smaller than classic cigars, and sometimes include filters, which leads many anti-smoking activists to complain that they are merely cigarettes in disguise.

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The Popularity of Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products