A new study has shown that the most cost-effective way to stop smoking is for doctors to tell their patients to stop. Archives on Internal Medicine, Oct 1995. Most recently the industry has hounded people that it thought had access to these documents in a last-ditch effort to prevent their becoming public. Brown and Williamson is part of the same company as Wills in Aust. Reports from the US have claimed that Philip Morris has been televising ads on closed circuit TV in petrol stations, and that cigarette and alcohol manufacturers are marketing on the Internet.
Tobacco is the most subsidised crop in Europe.
Smoking increased in American youth in the period 1991-1994 according to a University of Michigan study. Organisers of the Cape Town to Rio yacht race, had to deal with an entry called Nicorette. They knocked it back as Rothmans were the sponsors, but the tobacco company allowed it. The National Fatwa Council in Malaysia will meet at the end of the Year to decide if smoking is a more serious sin. It is presently considered a minor sin among Muslims.