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With the 2026 increases, a typical store could see its tobacco-related tax collections jump by tens of thousands of dollars

Missouri charges only $0.17, which means youll pay the lowest total retail price in the U.S

This change signals a major cultural shift: young adults are now less likely to smoke than older age groups, with the highest smoking rates found among those aged 50 to 64

Finally, we show that chemogenetically resetting an adult-like balance in dopamine signaling in response to nicotine restores a mature behavioral response in adolescent-exposed mice, causally implicating the development of this pathway in a type of naturally occurring resilience to nicotine use that develops in unexposed adults

Justin Helton is a commerce editor at Road & Track and an enthusiast with a passion for heavily depreciated autos and a penchant for philosophical debate

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