Russell once wrote, "There is little doubt that if it were not for the nicotine in tobacco smoke, people would be little more inclined to smoke than they are to blow bubbles or to light sparklers."* Unfortunately, as is widely known, nicotine has a dark side: It is highly addictive
If you put the first row of the chart into a graph, it looks like this: Colorados overall tax burden disproportionally hurts the poor not because of the income tax, which is progressive, but because every other state and local tax is regressive
as a result, at least 267 species are trapped in plastic waste or swallow it, says the United Nations, and it is estimated that, in 2050, 99% of sea birds will have eaten some type of toxic waste in their lifetime
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But cigarette smoking remains a key driver of preventable deaths, killing some 480,000 people per year