Cigarettes are used to bribe officials at hospitals or to procure documents from government offices
Behind this trend, according to the WHO, would be the marketing strategies of the manufacturers of these products
Medicinal and Non-Recreational Products Nicotine Replacement Products: Patches, gums, and lozenges derived from tobacco for cessation purposes
Intriguingly, enriched genes from biosynthesis and metabolism pathways were positively correlated with the enriched phyla Bacillota and Chloroflexiota , whereas it showed a negative correlation with phyla Pseudomonadota and Acidobacteriota (Fig
Additionally, while previous literature has shown that most African adolescents obtain tobacco products from stores 33 , it is possible that informal markets such as street vendors or illegal channels, like smuggling or counterfeiting, could also be sources of tobacco products at low prices 34