In addition, tobacco companies have been convicted of complicity in the illicit trade (just last month, British American Tobacco was fined 650,000 by HM Revenue and Customs for over-supplying cigarettes to Belgium amid fears that these cigarettes were being smuggled back into the UK) and independent peer-reviewed evidence shows that illicit trade did not increase in Australia after standardised packaging was introduced
16, associate professor at the UCLA School of Dentistry and the studys lead author
"I think what this story is about, at least for me, is that it tells us there are too many kids that are smoking globally and the majority of them want to quit," says Indu Ahluwalia, the Global Tobacco Control Branch Chief at the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health in Atlanta, and one of the study's co-authors
It made me think about how people often call tornadoes the finger of God, which is such an amazing metaphor of this phenomenon that, like a finger, is choosing what its going to destroy