According to the Coalition for a Smoke-Free Tomorrow, evidence shows that a $1 or higher increase in the cigarette tax would keep 23,200 children from becoming addicted to cigarettes and lead another 29,400 adults to quit smoking
References World Health Organization (WHO)
It happened without effort
INTERVENTION : Planned Parenthoods Katie Horowitz, Jose Garth, and other agency educators, with consultants from Pitts Graduate School of Public Health (including Christina Mair, a PhD assistant professor of behavioral and community health sciences) as well as developers at Apps Nat, teamed up to create IOTAS, or Its Okay to Ask Someone, a text line about sexual health for high school students
Check out its performance here
We watched as shredded tobacco was dumped, by the tons, into hampers that were somehow affixed to cam-shafts that would vibrate the tobacco down into dispensing nozzles that would lay constant streams of tightly-packed tobacco onto mile-long ribbons of narrow white cigarette paper
