[bayourod]

Only cowards smoke filtered cigarettes.

[qam1]

Good News for the Russian Mafia

PING

And in releated News, It's been now found that smoking causes you to get Legionnaires' disease if you visit an Aquarium

[struwwelpeter]

I wonder if Ukrainian cigarettes are covered by the tax?

[Chode]

Like they won't buy filtered smokes and rip off the filter... DUH!!!

[Mears]

The American tobacco companies could be behind this,as one gentleman says. I wouldn't put it past them.

Just more business for the Native Americans as far as I'm concerned,and good luck to them.

The various governments have made tax evasion a quite common pastime.

[Just another Joe]

The lack of tobacco control has contributed to the low life expectancy in males (58.6 years), and an estimated 300 000 people die from smoking related diseases every year.

It has nothing to do with diet, genetics, lack of health care, or anything else. It's that darn lack of tobacco control.

I wonder how far back they go with the life expectancy charts. Do they count the various purges by dictators?