There are challenges in comparing the lung cancer risks of weed (cannabis) and tobacco
To see whether differences in tax rates affect the CPLs presented earlier, we removed the estimates of average sales taxes from categories in both countries and calculated median CPL before and after sales taxes for 2005, 2008 and 2011 (Table 2)
doi:10.1021/es00016a023 Li X, Lin B, Zhang H, Xie F, Ta N, Tian L et al (2016) Cytotoxicity and mutagenicity of sidestream cigarette smoke particulate matter of different particle sizes
"The new laws that we introduce will quite likely be subject to challenge and we want to make sure that they withstand that and that they're rigorous." A state government spokesperson said they were in the process of strengthening the tobacco legislation, which it claimed would be the toughest in the country
Age-gating technology on these websites dont actually work, said Thomas Carr, director of national policy for the American Lung Association, who was not involved with the new study