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Advertising and price promotions, particularly those at the point of sale (POS) in convenience stores and gas stations (ie, multipack discounts, coupons, etc), constituted a significant proportion of cigarette manufacturer expenditures during the time period of this study and are often implemented to strategically offset impending tax increases among current and potential smokers.4 ,18 ,19 Since pack purchases were overwhelmingly more likely to be made at these locations, advertising promotions at the POS for multipack purchases could help to explain why multipack purchases increased while carton purchases declined from 2006 to 2011
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For example, such studies have revealed that nicotine administration alters functional brain activity, inducing enhanced activity in some regions involved with attention and cognition (e.g., thalamus, lateral frontoparietal cortices, anterior cingulate cortex [ACC]) yet reducing activity in other regions involved with task-irrelevant mental operations (e.g., mind wandering
