importing cigarettes CBP seizes almost $60k of illegal from cruise passengers 65% duty imposed on imported

Quitting smoking is a journey, its a process

The stuff resists cleaning and can linger for years, harming people youll never even meet

Lung Cancer 56 , 915 (2007)

According to Treasury figures, tobacco duty rises will see an extra 66p added to a packet of 20 cigarettes - likely to take the average cost past 15 - and an extra 33p per 10g of cigars Around 80 per cent of the price of a packet of cigarettes is made up of tax, with ministers having regularly used a tobacco duty escalator over the past three decades to hike levies

National Vital Statistics Reports, 2016;vol 65: no 4

Yet, there are hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths attributed to tobacco use every year