states have made it illegal for teens to buy vaping goods, these supplies could still be ordered over the internet
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For example, somebody trying to buy a pack of cigarettes 50 years from now would need to prove they were at least 63 years old
The result: millions of cartons sold, numerous loopholes exploited, and the very act of repeated cigarette smoking (which, by this point, had been inexorably linked to lung cancer) turned into a token-redemption Skinner box whose only rewards were branded apparel and a preventable death
A senior official from a leading Bangladeshi cigarette company told TBS that smuggled and misdeclared cigarettes now make up about 2% of the country's total consumption, a figure that is steadily growing