In 2018, the US Surgeon General declared that there was an e-cigarette epidemic among young people, adding that e-cigarette usage increased 78 percent among high school students from the previous year, from 11.7 percent in 2017 to 20.8 percent in 2018
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The tobacco lobby, through promotional allowances 44 , has contributed funds to organizations not directly related to tobacco, including retailer groups, restaurant associations, and the hospitality industry, with the aim of weakening tobacco control regulations
Even Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM) realizes that if it and the rest of the tobacco industry have any hope of future growth, it's going to come from cigarette alternatives, not cigarettes themselves
Repeat offenders face lashes as well as prison time and, as in the case of the beheaded police official, may even be executed, according to activists contacted in Islamic States self-declared capital of Raqqa in northeast Syria
