average for a pack of cigarettes is $5.51, meaning a pack-a-day smokers average annual expense sits at $2,011
You read that correctly: under the oddly named Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, Congress forbade the FDA from removing from the market the most lethal tobacco product by far, cigarettes, which are still responsible for nearly half a million deaths each year in the U.S.even as that same government health agency can remove cancer treatment drugs that cause unacceptable side effects
It is illegal for retailers to sell any tobacco productincluding cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, and e-cigarettesto anyone under 21
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