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A report on a 2018 menthol cigarette ban by seven Canadian provinces finds that "provincial menthol bans significantly increased non-menthol cigarette smoking among youths, resulting in no overall net change in youth smoking rates." Not surprisingly, given the history of black markets in general and tobacco in particular, the researchers "also document evidence of evasion: provincial menthol bans shifted smokers' cigarette purchases away from grocery stores and gas stations to First Nations reserves (where the menthol bans do not bind)." None of this should be a shock given that marijuana prohibition is in retreat after years of failure

Similar to relatively recent e-cigarette industry practices, these products are promoted either through direct advertisements or indirect product sponsorships, skirting many of the advertising and marketing restrictions that exist for cigarettes and becoming extremely different for state regulators to monitor, survey, and address

[5] The copy of an advertisement at that time said, "Lucky Strikes were the cigarettes carried on the 'Friendship' when she crossed the Atlantic

Over the period under review, imports continue to indicate a perceptible curtailment

You can think about this in two ways, Powers said