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Editorial: Why massacres like the San Jose shooting aren t as inevitable as they have come to seem
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A Valley Transportation Authority display of the shooting victims.Josie Lepe/Special to the Chronicle
Shootings such as the one that killed nine transit workers in San Jose on Wednesday can engender a sense of futility about gun violence. California has the strictest gun laws in the country, according to one analysis, and yet the Bay Area just suffered its deadliest gun massacre to date. What’s the point?
Such fatalism is understandable in the shadow of an atrocity. It’s also wrong.
A San Jose workplace mass shooting came on the heels of two similar incidents in Indiana and Texas, prompting US President Joe Biden to renew calls for passing tougher.
May 28, 2021
9-in-10 smokers become hooked as teens, young adults
More than half of countries worldwide have shown no progress in reducing smoking among teens and young adults over the past three decades, according to findings from a study of global smoking trends involving 204 nations and territories.
An analysis of Global Burden of Disease study data from 1990 through 2019 showed that 9-out-of-10 (89.1%) new smokers worldwide pick up the habit by the time they are 25, and that close to 1-in-5 (18.5%) smokers began using cigarettes regularly by age 15.
Worldwide in 2019, 155 million teens and young adults between the ages of 15 and 24 years were regular combustible cigarette smokers, with a global prevalence of 20.1% among males and 4.95% among females, wrote researcher Emmanuela Gakidou, PhD, MSc, of the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Seattle, and colleagues.