Sentences with phrase «with cigarette prices»

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«If we substitute a tax on marijuana cigarettes equal to the difference between the local production cost and the street price people currently pay — that is, transfer the revenue from the current producers and marketers (many of whom work with organized crime) to the government, leaving all other marketing and transportation issues aside we would have revenue of (say) $ 7 per [unit].

The coalition's U-turns with regard to the plain packaging of cigarettes and minimum alcohol pricing would appear to provide clear proof of this.

The vast majority of cigarette packs were sold at prices in compliance with the minimum price law, suggesting that the lower prices paid by the retailers were not passed on to customers.

For their analysis, Vanderbilt and Michigan researchers used public data from 1999 to 2010 to determine the association of cigarette tax and price increases over time with infant mortality rates in the United States.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Higher taxes and prices for cigarettes are strongly associated with lower infant mortality rates in the United States, according to a new study from Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan released Dec. 1 in the journal Pediatrics.

A pack of cigarettes now costs more than $ 5 on average — with some states tacking on additional taxes that raise the price even more.

To give it an authentic touch I dangled an unlit cigarette from my lips, slapped on some removable tattoos, brought a bottle of vodka with me — have you seen the prices for a mini bottle of booze?

Some pro-electronic publishing forums have suggested that, like cigarettes, ebooks produced by the publishers adopting the agency model should come with a warning along the lines of: Warning: buying this book will support a publisher who wants to increase book prices for all.

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The same thing happens with a variety of other commodities — when cigarette prices rise in Texas, people in North Texas who can drive up to Cherokee Country do and bring back cheaper cigarettes.

Subsequently, respondents were asked to indicate whether their parents had discussed the following topics with them: health risks of smoking, health risks of breathing in smoke, non-smoking agreements, being allowed to smoke, places where the adolescent could or could not smoke, price of cigarettes, addiction, attention paid to smoking in school, friends who smoke and others offering cigarettes.

As can be seen from the third column of Table IV, at T1, some practices (communication about health risks of breathing in smoke and about addictive qualities of smoking) were inversely related to ever having smoked, whereas others (reward for not smoking, the frequency of communication about smoking, communication about being allowed to smoke and price of cigarettes) were significantly associated with higher chances of lifetime smoking.

As at T1, while some practices were associated with less smoking (house rules for smoking in the living room and outside, communication about health risks of smoking, health risks of breathing in smoke and attention paid to smoking in school), others were related to an increase in smoking behavior (frequency of communication about smoking, communication about being allowed to smoke, price of cigarettes and friends smoking).

While some practices were associated with less smoking (communication about health risks of smoking, health risks of breathing in smoke, addictive qualities of smoking and attention for smoking in school), others were related to increased chances of smoking (rewards for not smoking, frequency of communication about smoking, communication about being allowed to smoke, price of cigarettes and friends smoking).