However, it is a very big accelerator that will be needed to do the job, and the estimated costs for the project are about 500 million Euros.

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Politicians would be terrified to do it -- there are an estimated 45 million smokers in the United States, and no one is going to risk alienating them by completely cutting them off from cigarettes.

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