Tobacco taxes have historically disproportionately affected low-income residents, according to studies such as the 2012 study by RTI International researchers that found low-income smokers in New York spent a quarter of their household income on cigarettes because of the state's $4.35 per pack tax
And, more importantly, that brand archivists spent 15 years trying to track down a bottle of the original juice to kick start the next generation of scents
While tech giants like Apple (with intangible assets of $2.7 trillion) and Microsoft ($2.3 trillion) continued to lead the pack in the 2023 analysis, last years most intangible sector in relative terms, with 91 percent of total enterprise value, was tobacco and e-cigarettes, as companies invested heavily in proprietary technology and patented intellectual property around vaping devices to drive growth, according to Brand Finance
this was still staffed by people willing to butcher all of them if the situation called for it
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Furthermore, the news release indicated that efforts to recycle or clean up filters through Extended Producer Responsibility programs may promote greenwashing narratives that undermine marketing bans and industry accountability.
