When the COVID-19 pandemic hit three years ago and smoking indoors was temporarily banned, she no longer saw large clouds of smoke but a casino filled with players
The country now has one of the worlds strictest anti-tobacco laws
Its clear to me that, when the menthol and flavor bans in Massachusetts and California were put into effect through legislation, no one had any idea that there was this particular product waiting in the wings, says Mark Gottlieb a lawyer with the Center for Public Health Litigation, a nonprofit public health law firm in Massachusetts
Smokeless tobacco releases toxic compounds and metals, while e-cigarettes add hazardous lithium-ion batteries, circuit boards, and plastic casings to the ocean debris stream
It is also important to note that Australia no longer has a domestic tobacco manufacturing sector, with the last tobacco growing being in 2006 and cigarette production ceasing in 2015 (Australian Taxation Office, 2024