A hypothetical removal of menthol cigarettes and cigars in New York City was projected to save an average of $1,836 in healthcare costs per person, or $1.62 billion among all adult smokers over a 20-year period
(Six years ago, Springsteen and Davies sang The Kinks Better Things on a collaborative album Davies did with various artists called See My Friends.) The most daring Springsteen show I saw him play was a solo, mostly acoustic, two-hour gig at the Orpheum in 1995 in the wake of the stark The Ghost of Tom Joad (his second foray into that territory, the first being Nebraska)
One retailer capitalising on the cigar sales opportunity all year round is David Worlsfold, owner of Farrants in Cobham, Surrey, which features a tobacco room and walk-in-humidor for premium cigars
4.3 million hectares of land are used to grow tobacco (2012) 90% of tobacco farming is in low- to middle- income countries, with the top being China, Brazil, and India
The regulations have required all cigarette packs sold in Turkey to be black, and many of them feature gruesome, unsettling photos
