In the 1920s, weight lossor reducing, as it was then knownbecame a major craze, and the tobacco industry moved to market its products as a healthier alternative to candy
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President Gorbachev pleaded with Washington for help, and the largest American tobacco companies hurriedly made plans to ship 34 billion cigarettes to Russia, at a dollar a pack
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: Price elasticity of demand of non-cigarette tobacco products: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Versions of this work were presented at the 150th annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Diego, California, May 1997, and the 3rd annual scientific conference of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Nashville, Tennessee, June, 1997