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A new report from a Senate commission has predicted that if prices continue to rise at the same rate of 5% every year, a packet of 20 cigarettes will cost 25 by 2040, the equivalent of 20 in todays money

Yet, the tobacco industrys knowledge of the addictive nature of nicotine goes back to at least the 1960s

This is interesting, because there is some evidence that women seem to have a higher risk of developing lung cancer than men, taking into account the amount they smoke

Identical packaging for all brands would make it more difficult to signal affinity to any particular sub-group of smokers, making any cigarette much more a mere deliverer of nicotine