Hong, J
Mortality-based calculations remain relatively inaccurate as they are subject to a large number of confounders that would have to be properly assessed both from air pollution and tobacco-smoking perspectives and would require a considerable amount of work to be quantified
In this album, Quentin (who uses all pronouns) shows up as their full, fluid self, at least temporarily ditching pretense about gender, style, and anything else that might get in the way of music
I think sometimes legislators dont think through the ways people can avoid these things as much. (The Department of Revenues chief economist, Kazim Ozyurt, made a similar point in a presentation before the Illegal Tobacco Commission in November: Tax avoidance appears to be unavoidable in general, one of his slides began, before detailing ways to mitigate it.) In this view, figuring out the right place to set a cigarette tax is less a matter of simply passing a law, and more about finding the right balance among public health, budget needs, and crime
