The average cigarette nowadays is estimated to have roughly 17 milligrams of the drug
Australia now has smoking bans in workplaces, pubs, clubs, restaurants, educational institutions, entertainment venues, sports stadiums, patrolled beaches, playgrounds, cars carrying children, and on public transport
Such sweeping measures indicate a wide appreciation of the health threats posed by cigarettes
Its important to point out that bans on menthol cigarettes are not new
During my time at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), we created and implemented the Departments first ever Tobacco Control Strategic Action Plan entitled Ending the Epidemic. In the era of the new Affordable Care Act, the plan helped unite HHS in leveraging FDAs new tobacco control authority
The pachyderm is the ban on tobacco that Australia wants, but cant quite wrest from its subconscious and out into the light