With this device, you can manage the size and shape of your cigarettes, as well as how much tobacco goes into each one
The United Kingdom's Imperial Tobacco Group is buying Reynolds' Kool, Salem, Winston, Maverick and blue eCigs brands, along with other assets, for $7.1 billion
This flexibility allows manufacturers to cater to diverse market demands
Nevertheless, smoking to this day remains the single most common preventable cause of death in the world
The new study -- conducted by researchers from Yale, Stanford and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York, and published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research -- compared almost 11,000 people in 31 states that increased cigarette taxes between the 2001-2002 period and the 2004-2005 period, with a similar number of people from 15 states in which taxes remained the same