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The results of research carried out between 2008 and 2010 by the World Health Organization, US Centers for Disease Control, and the Canadian Public Health Association into tobacco use in low and middle income counties compared with the UK and US.

Nutshell: the sun rises in the east and everyone takes a light off it.

Tobacco use in 3 billion individuals from 16 countries: an analysis of nationally representative cross-sectional household survey (The Lancet)

Meanwhile, in less bleak smoking news, Tasmania is considering legislation that will ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after the year 2000. (Hat tip: Mark Geary)

22words/theeconomist

Millstone writes:

I got a flier on this today. It seems that the Irish cigarette companies, who can’t really promote themselves, have taken to lobbying against illegal tobacco.

 

From the website:

ITMAC is the Irish Tobacco Manufacturers’ Advisory Committee. Current membership comprises P.J. Carroll & Company Limited, JTI Ireland Limited (formerly Gallaher (Dublin) Limited) and John Player & Sons Limited.

ITMAC represents the views of its members when communicating with the Government, the authorities and others on issues which affect the industry as a whole such as taxation & smuggling, youth access prevention and other issues as they arise. It has no role in the manufacture, purchase, marketing or pricing of tobacco products.

Nice, safe, heavily taxed tobacco products.

Not like those nasty, dangerous smuggled-in tabs.

(Thanks Millstone)