The New York Times
Retail sales data are key to providing real-time information on the rapidly changing e-cigarette landscape, which is essential to reducing youth tobacco use. Retail sales data from Information Resources, Inc., which included Universal Product Code sales from brick-and-mortar retailers only, were analyzed by CDC, CDC Foundation, and Truth Initiative
These dynamic changes in the landscape of the US tobacco industry are complicated and difficult to comprehensively understand without the assistance of data visualization
"It's crazy that the government, in order to raise (revenue from) taxes, they're permitting people to suck this stuff into your lungs," says Smith, 78, an accountant from Island Park
This yields vastly different effective tax rates depending on the length of the supply chain and disproportionately harms low-margin firms