While the bulk of ANSR-MNs work was focused on garnering support for the pricing policies, its clear that other work across the region has created a substantial level of awareness of the problem that the tobacco retail environment represents, as all other parts of the package of policies that ultimately made it into the updated ordinance came from different sources, including from city councilmembers
Objectives Does switching from cigarettes to HTPs improve responses to pulmonary infection
The question, of course, is how all this reads in 2023
Photo credit: TII Waves of tax hikes have steadily exacerbated Indias illicit cigarette situation
Over time the accumulation of cigarette tar in the lungs interferes with the lung's ability to clear other airborne toxins and eventually, the buildup of toxins leads to emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis, heart disease, stroke and cancer