is normal tobacco being banned Smoking ban Why aren't cigarettes banned? -

All before a swathe of compelling research revealed its true and malignant nature

FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights The tobacco industry identified menthol cigarettes as a product that they would preferentially market to the African-American population

But the truth is that by making cigarettes smoother, cooler, and easier to inhale, tobacco companies have created a product that has a higher addiction potential and is harder to quit than non-mentholated cigarettes

Figures from Australia which imposed plain packaging three years before the UK found that restricting the colour, size and font on cigarette packets led to a noticeable drop in the number of people smoking

Yet we still permit the sale and use of tobacco