Hon said Chinas state-run tobacco industry a powerful lobby that contributes as much as 10 percent to total government revenues, according to the U.S.-based Brookings Institution was wary of the competition
Menthol makes it easier to start smoking, she says, especially for young adults who are trying cigarettes for the first time
WAILOO: And suddenly, all of this material about how the industry built its markets, how they thought about race, how they thought about Black people, why they started to pivot to menthol marketing in the city, all that became publicly available
In 2014, for example, Philip Morris estimated it spent $1.6 million on LAMP events and sampling at kiosks in India, according to the 2015 commercial review presentation
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