In Victoria alone, there have now been more than 50 firebombings of retail stores in the last 12 months
If you smoke: 1 pack per day at $18 ~$540/month 1 pack per day at $20 ~$600/month That equals: $6,500$7,300 per year By switching to cheaper options and smarter buying strategies, you could potentially reduce this by hundredsor even thousandsof dollars annually
This strategy, known as tobacco harm reduction, has been embraced by scientists and public health experts over the past decade
But relentlessly targeted marketing campaigns locked the preference in place, part of what Phillip Gardiner, a research scientist at the Tobacco Related Disease Research Program at the University of California calls the "African-Americanization of menthol cigarette use." "Menthol cigarettes have been marketed to some of the most vulnerable segments of the population," Gardiner says
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