For next four year, between 2025 to 2028, Ukraine will lose around $500 million in tobacco excise taxes, and Ukraine will have around 24,000 additional deaths from hamful tobacco use, said Kupyra, who said that about 15% of young Ukrainians aged 18 to 28 use HTPs thanks to aggressive marketing
in 2020
Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2020)
Here are a couple of facts : Cost of Smoking Related illness to the NHS : Apx 2 Billion Annually Tax Receipts from Tobacco & Related Product Sales : Apx 10 Billion Annually That points to an 8 Billion net gain for the Government, which, if given to the NHS and/or Cancer Research would add additional fund in the fight against cancer and the research needed to advance it
A Happy Accident The menthol cigarette was invented in the 1920s, when a man named Lloyd Spud Hughes stashed some tobacco in a tin where he kept menthol crystals considered at the time something of a medicinal miracle, commonly used to treat colds and other minor ailments