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" Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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" Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts. "

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" At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man. "

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" Tobacco marketing often reaches children and youth and entices them to start using tobacco while they are still at an impressionable age. Nearly four out of five high school cigarette smokers will become adult smokers, even if they intend to quit in a few years. By the time they want to quit, they're hooked. "

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