"Richard Lipsky, a lobbyist for the owners of small delis, bodega owners and convenience stores, predicted in an interview that many neighborhood stores would not survive the higher tax as many smokers would buy their cigarettes over the Internet, from Indian reservations, from adjoining states or from smugglers," the Times reported
In the United States, for instance, the Tobacco 21 (T21) law raised the age from 18 to 21
The Industry Response - Catch A Tiger By The Tail(pipe) Just as the tobacco industry was not going to roll over and allow billions in profits to go up in smoke, neither is the oil industry
Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities: A Report of the Surgeon General, 2024
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