E-cigarettes introduce plastic, nicotine salts, heavy metals, lead, mercury, and flammable lithium-ion batteries into the environment and these products wont biodegrade even under severe conditions
The combined federal, state, county, and local tax on a pack of 20 cigarettes in the city of Chicago, in Cook County, Illinois, is $7.42, the highest in the entire country with New York City as second highest with $6.85
It is often portrayed in the media as a much less harmful substance that people use recreationally
Brand Profile, undated, accessed April 2018 IA Dutt
Product-specific messages would be more effective at changing peoples attitude and intention towards tobacco products than the general knowledge-based message that just corrects nicotine misperceptions
From 1965 to 2014, about 6.4 million women died from smoking-attributable disease