"The measure means that health messaging will be conveyed with every cigarette and every puff, will be there during every smoke break, and will reach youth who experiment by borrowing cigarettes from a friend
More than $400 million in annual revenue from sales and use taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products go to the state and local governments
The researchers suggest the process could be tweaked to produce different chemical substances and tobacco with low levels of nicotine
(UPDATED to reflect closing prices): High demand and state guarantees have enabled Pennsylvania to sell $1.5 billion in "tobacco bonds" backed by future revenues from the 20-year-old multi-state settlement with cigarette makers at better-then-expected prices, though still at a premium to more-solvent states
The Royal Society of Public Health thinks the same (8), it said: nicotine by itself is fairly harmlessnot too dissimilar to caffeine addiction . In their 2013 report titled Tobacco Harm Reduction and Nicotine Containing Products (9), Cancer Research UK stated that nicotine, beyond its mildly addictive properties outside of cigarettes, has no established short- or long-term danger
Definitely a great way to help enhance the success of your tobacco prevention campaign
