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e-cigarette sales in the past year, according to retail data from Nielsen

Yesterday industry representatives were making claims in the media that: we have now reached a tipping point where not only has tobacco excise become a volatile, poor-quality revenue stream, it is also no longer an effective deterrent.[2] and claiming that the size of the illicit market would be as high as 4.5bn [note todays estimate is 1.4bn]

For its part, PMI has invested $7.2 billion in developing smoke-free" products in the hopes of receiving about 40% of its revenue nearly $20 billion from non-combustible and other novel tobacco products by 2025

This includes plain packaging requirements, health warnings, retail licensing, and restricted advertising rules

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