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Filtered cigarettes are the dominant form of tobacco use in the world, and although this issue exists in all countries, the smoking rate is varying 1,2

At 12 weeks, 21.9% of participants given nicotine-containing e-cigarettes had quit smoking, 17.3% of participants given non-nicotine e-cigarettes had quit and 9.1% of participants given only counseling had quit

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If, for instance, the federal government were to increase taxes by $1 per pack of 20 cigarettes, and this increase were passed on to consumers, state governments in aggregate would raise roughly $720 million less in revenue from excise taxes on cigarettes.[29] In addition, when taxpayers pay more in tobacco taxes, they pay less in other taxes like income and payroll taxes

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