Amid the rise of vaping and e-cigarettes, there has been one casualty: tobacco cigarettes.
Don’t tell that to the federal government, which is prohibiting flavored-vaping products to protect people from themselves.
“The United States has never seen an epidemic of substance use arise as quickly as our current epidemic of youth use of e-cigarettes,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a statement about the change, which goes into effect in 30 days.
Here is a chart of tobacco cigarettes sold in the United States:
Interesting data:
“As our chart illustrates, cigarette sales have declined more or less continuously over the past 40 years, dropping by 66 percent since peaking in the early 1980s. Over the same period, cigarette advertising and promotional spending increased from $1.2 billion in 1980 to $8.4 billion in 2018, most of which came in the form of price discounts for retailers and wholesalers.”
What you are going to see is young people lighting Marlboros again. This is good news for the tobacco industry.
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