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The thing that makes tobacco different from other public health epidemics, says Dave Dobbins, chief operating officer of the American Legacy Foundation, is that if you suddenly decide the problem is solved and youre going to walk away from it, unlike polio, theres an extremely powerful industry spending billions of dollars [thats] going to fill that void very quickly. It takes a three-pronged approach to drive down the rate of smoking: funding of antismoking programs, regular tax increases on cigarettes and restrictions on where people can light up
including, without limitation, tax increases and restrictions on sales, marketing, packaging, labeling and use of tobacco products, privately imposed restrictions and governmental investigations
It creates an immediate atmosphere of sophistication and depth
Americans also generate nearly 3 million tons of consumer electronic waste, including e-cigarette waste, that ultimately end up in landfills
