Despite warnings of severe health risks attributed to it, smoking tobacco still remains popular
Dan Romer, associate director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, said a regionwide or statewide tax increase might go further to improve population-level health and to prevent leakage. Leakage, or tax avoidance, occurs as consumers head to the next county or state to buy cigarettes
Highland Park, being part of Tulsa, follows these state guidelines
"Our legislation simply seeks to remove these barriers, aligning state regulations with federal standards, therefore allowing our teenagers the same opportunity as their peers in nearly half the states in our union," Pratt said
The Royal College of Physicians says e-cigarettes "appear to be effective" as a smoking cessation tool, while the World Health Organisation says the evidence for this is "scant and of low certainty, making it difficult to draw credible inferences"
