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While it was difficult during the pandemic to focus attention on public health issues other than COVID-19, the importance of implementing stringent public health policies to protect populations from unhealthy products such as tobacco became immediately obvious, stated Luciana Severini, PAHO International Consultant on tobacco control
Further, this measure provides funding for tobacco prevention and cessation programs, and to the extent these programs are effective, this would further decrease consumption of tobacco products
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Separately, a Hopkinton man was arrested in June for allegedly failing to pay nearly $500,000 in excise taxes after he allegedly sought out-of-state distributors in order to market vape-type products, according to FOX Boston
