Cigarettes are a prime target of thieves, and a flashpoint for incidents of violence and abuse against retail workers, which rose by 50% to 1,300 a day in 2023 according to the BRC
Image Credit: Amani A / Shutterstock.com Background Although the use of 9 -tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-containing cannabis products is not legal in all U.S
It is not clear why some groups adopt smoking while others dont, but antismoking advocates point to images and messages that promote smoking, whether they are in actual advertisements or in movies and television
But it's also been linked to mental health problems and, as a class B drug, being caught with it in the UK could land you with a five-year, external prison sentence
Public Health Englands use of smoking as a benchmark for the relative safety of vaping (Public Health England maintains vaping is 95% safer than smoking, 28 December) will puzzle many given that smoking is not, by any reckoning, safe