With 80,000 tobacco-related deaths in France each year, doing nothing is not an option, Philippe said on Tuesday, announcing a plan to raise the price of a packet of cigarettes to 10 euros (US$11.3) from the current seven euros
In the late 1950s and 1960s, researchers and doctors began to sound the alarm: smoking kills
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In support, another two studies carried out by Llewellyn et al ., 32,33 which involved the analysis of 53 cases in one study and 116 cases in another, found there to be no increased risk of oral cancer amongst regular cannabis smokers
Thus, while well-intentioned, many regulatory interventions risk reinforcing existing inequalities unless they are carefully designed with equity in mind