Behind the Scenes of America's Worst Gas Station (written by Rob Clooney)
Is there a role for e-cigarettes in smoking cessation
"If a smoker takes his or her pack out 20 times a day, every time it's an advertisement and it has the endorsement of the person that's holding the pack, (exposing them to) kids that may see their parents' packs or kids that may see their friends around the schoolyard or in their community." Among the countries that have adopted plain packaging for tobacco products are Australia, the United Kingdom and France, and research has shown that removing logos, colours and brand images helps make them less appealing to consumers, including young people
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
