While the study focused on the UK, life expectancy and smoking are big issues in the US, too
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I think sometimes legislators dont think through the ways people can avoid these things as much. (The Department of Revenues chief economist, Kazim Ozyurt, made a similar point in a presentation before the Illegal Tobacco Commission in November: Tax avoidance appears to be unavoidable in general, one of his slides began, before detailing ways to mitigate it.) In this view, figuring out the right place to set a cigarette tax is less a matter of simply passing a law, and more about finding the right balance among public health, budget needs, and crime
He and his team collected confiscated vapes from 38 schools across England, including London, the West Midlands, Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire