It also professes to provide a more healthy option to cigarettes
That includes flavored cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco and snuff
"When you raise the price of these smoke-free options, these better alternatives, it's harder for them to get those and they may just stick with their cigarettes." After a steady decline in cigarette smokers in America, tobacco giant Phillip Morris International bought the company that makes the extremely popular Zyn pouches
6, would funnel nearly $300 million annually for statewide public K-12 and higher education, as well as to smoking cessation programs while raising the tax from 17 to 90 cents on a packet of cigarettes
Source: American Journal of Pathology (2009, May 2)