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Current smokers with ALS had a significantly shorter median survival (1.9 years) compared with former smokers (2.3 years) and those who never smoked (2.7 years)

Not only is this problematic in that the TTB is aggressively using an outdated and sparsely worded statute to contemplate aggressively beefing up its regulatory posture toward the industry, but on the merits, the alcohol sector is less concentrated than ever at the producer level, as the beer aisle at any grocery store will attest

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