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"publishedAt": "2026-05-16T10:00:00.000Z",
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"textContent": "A new law in the U.K. bars young people from buying cigarettes for the rest of their lives. For the British government, even a sixty-year-old will someday be underage.",
"title": "The Generation That Will Always Be Too Young to Smoke"
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