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Even with smuggling on the decline, the estimated volumes were still considerable: Between 135 million and 278 million packs of cigarettes were estimated to have illegally entered California in fiscal year 1998, representing between $50 million and $103 million in potential excise tax revenue.[199] The moderate decline in illicit smuggling that lasted 10 years between 1988 and 1998 ended when California voters raised the cigarette tax by 50 cents per pack, from 37 cents to 87 cents, by approving Proposition 10 in November 1998
Thousands of flavored, high-nicotine, and relatively cheap e-cigarette products remain on the market many of them illegally driving youth use and nicotine addiction
Speaking of caveats, those early reports that smokers were underrepresented in COVID hospital wards were deeply flawed , using data sets where the smoking status of a significant portion of hospitalized patients was missing or where people who had recently stopped smoking were categorized not as smokers but as former smokers. Oh, and the French team that proposed the nicotinic hypothesis and suggested that maybe nicotine could prevent COVID-19
You frequently consider returning to cigarettes
