(The most recent National Survey on the Status of Drugs and Substance Use in Kenya found that only 3.2% of people age 18 to 24 have smoked in the past month.) Data on Velo sales is not made publicly available by BAT or the Kenyan government, meaning the number of customers, including the number of young people buying the product, is unknown
As well made as it is, it is very uninspired
[16] This figure includes $118.2 million in state general sales taxes on cigarettes, $115.2 million in excise taxes on cigarettes, $13.3 million in vaping excise taxes, and $6.2 million in state general sales taxes on vaping products
And yet their own price increases are equivalent or greater than the tax that they claim will drive smokers to the illegal market
Tobacco 21 laws are critical, as they directly address the largest access point youth have to tobacco and vapor products peers of legal age