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According to data from the World Health Organization, [38] the amount of tobacco per 1000 cigarettes fell from 1.03 kg (2.28 pounds) in 1960 to 0.41 kg (0.91 pounds) in 1999, largely as a result of reconstituting tobacco, fluffing, and additives.
Cigarette smoking alone has cost the United States $96 billion in direct medical expenses and $97 billion in lost productivity per year, or an average of $4,260 per adult smoker. In 1964 the Surgeon General of the United States published its landmark report, Smoking and Health , which identified smoking as the cause of many health problems. [ 8 ]
While the price of cigarettes has continuously increased since 1965, the percentage of that price going towards taxes is now half of what it was then. [15] As of 2011, Phillip Morris lists total government revenue, including federal, state, local, and sales taxes, as 55% of the estimated retail price of a pack of cigarettes in the United States ...
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The bright-tobacco industry, 1860-1929 (1948) online; Wagner, Susan. Cigarette Country: Tobacco in American History and Politics (Praeger, 1971). online; Wailoo, Keith. Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette (2021) excerpt; Winkler, John K. Tobacco tycoon, the story of James Buchanan Duke ...
According to the World Bank, between 1985 and 2000, the inflation-adjusted price of tobacco dropped 37%. [62] ... tobacco consumption is rising by 3.4% per year.
According to the Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database, before the New Orleans attack there had been three intentional and indiscriminate vehicle rammings since ...