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A smoker in New York who buys two packs of cigarettes will pay about nine dollars to the State. If he smokes 730 packs in 12 months, in the year he will pay to the State 3,285 dollars in taxes more than a non-smoker.
All over the world high taxes on cigarettes are justified by "the social cost of tobacco". In fact, it causes pathologies that afflict, or will afflict a great number of smokers. For this reason, tobacco leads to enormous medical costs, that are paid by the collectivity.
Tobacco use in the United States entails annual medical costs of more than $75 billion dollars. Who pays? Speaking of social costs, we tend to forget to make the distinction between the countries that guarantee free medical services for everyone, as in Europe, and countries where medical aid is left to the economic possibilities of the individual, as in the United States. Read more »
European countries squabbled last week over how to split the 1.25 billion dollars that Philip Morris, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes, offered them to settle a dispute over smuggling.
“… it seems that fragments of acetate and cellulose are released during the drawing. These deposit in the lungs and in the long term, in combination with the condensate, cause alterations of the lung cells. The active carbon filters, too, release carbon particles.” This is written on the Yesmoke.ch site.
It is forbidden to print on cigarette packets "slogans that might give the impression that a certain tobacco product could be less harmful than others". So, the Yesmokes that displayed the catchphrase "Smoke Better", were outlawed. It was a directive of the Canton Laboratory of Bellinzona that ordered the withdrawal from the market of all the packets, which the company itself immediately destroyed.
