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They didn't want to be associated with any particular product line, and they didn't want to offend the people that were using a rival product

Even though the tax rates in New York City are high and the illicit market is very large, smoking rates have declined to a point where they are actually lower than smoking rates in the rest of New York State, Schroth told Filter

And according to University of Stirling tobacco packaging researcher Crawford Moodie, that should be no surprise: The findings [on the benefits of plain packaging] are also consistent with idea that packaging is an important vehicle for marketing, as is clear from the tobacco industrys own internal documents. Indeed, tobacco industry communications were made public through legislation and shed light on how the industry hooks consumers

driving demand for disposable e-cigarettes as an alternative to smoking