Cigarettes are defined any product that contains nicotine and is intended to be heated when used, as well as loose tobacco. Cigars fit this definition. Cartoons are defined as any drawings that use comically exaggerated features, attribute any anthropomorphic characteristics to anything other than people, or give people unnatural abilities. Joe Camel is specifically defined as a cartoon. External observers can tell whether tobacco advertising and promotions target people under 18.
Advertising causes people to smoke.
The evidence suggests that smokers generate a net financial benefit for states. W. Kip Viscusi, an economist at Harvard Law School, contrasted the financial burdens of state expenses for medical care and lost taxes on earnings with the financial gains from state excise taxes on cigarettes, lower nursing home expenses, and smaller pension payouts. Viscusi estimated that the financial gain for representative states ranged from 10.2 cents per pack in Virginia, the state with the lowest tobacco excise tax, to 59.4 cents in New York, the state with the highest excise tax. Smokers, not the state, bear the financial burden. As a group, they tend to have lower incomes than non-smokers.