However, the primary market driver remains the consistent demand from smokers seeking economical alternatives to pre-packaged cigarettes, with bulk purchasers (tobacco shops, convenience store chains) comprising 72% of industrial sales volume
Erika Sward, the national vice president of advocacy for the American Lung Association, notes: While we have made progress, sixty years later, our nation remains one step behind the tobacco industrys efforts to addict our nations youth to tobacco products and to keep current users addicted. When it comes to understanding the health, socioeconomic and changing demographic impacts of cigarette smoking, weve come a long way, baby
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"Tobacco companies have rebranded their roll-your-own cigarette tobacco as pipe tobacco, to avoid taxes, and rebranded flavored cigarettes as flavored cigars to skirt a federal ban," said co-lead investigator Andrea Villanti, deputy director of the Rutgers Center
