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The benefits of quitting: a new lease of life at any age Within hours of quitting smoking, the body begins to repair itself: 20 minutes after the last cigarette : blood pressure and heart rate begin to normalise

Minimum age to buy tobacco jumps to 21 statewide, following Needham's lead Nearly 14 years after Needham became the first town in the country to ban tobacco sales to people under 21, the higher purchase age for cigarettes and other tobacco products kicked in across the state at the start of the new year

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As to law reform in England, see Donald Veall, The Popular Movement for Law Reform 16401660 (Oxford, 1970), 97240