Worse still, an advance of the deadline from September of 1973 to September of 1970 for removing cigarette commercials from the air was going to cost the broadcasters perhaps a third of a billion dollars in advertising revenue, the amount depending on the terms of a proposed phaseout
Thats how many deaths the tobacco industry causes
A 2013 report in the journal Tobacco Control found that cigarette manufacturing consumes scarce resources in growing, curing, rolling, flavouring, packaging, transport, advertising and legal defence and also causes harms from massive pesticide use
At this turning point, the credibility of EU tobacco policy will be measured less by ambition alone, and more by its capacity to let evidence genuinely lead
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