The modern history of cigarettes is a study in corporate greed and societal tragedy
A separate randomized trial of a different GLP-1 medication, dulaglutide, found higher quit rates at the end of treatment but no lasting difference at 12 months (32% in both the dulaglutide and placebo groups), a reminder that early benefits do not always hold over time

They found that a 1 percent shift of tax revenues from income taxes to consumption and property taxes would increase gross domestic product (GDP) per capita by as much as 1 percent in the long run, and that income taxes were more strongly associated with lower incomes than were sales or consumption taxes.[17] A Canadian study, meanwhile, found that increases in sales taxes are generally associated with increases in economic growth, because they often replace income taxes and other taxes on investment.[18] One interesting local tax study concluded that a 1 percentage-point increase in a state individual income tax rate reduces annual population growth rates by 0.81 percentage points, while a similar 1 percentage-point increase in local sales tax rates actually increases the annual growth rate by 0.83 percent,[19] evidently because residents favor the services provided by sales taxes more than they dislike the tax, whereas the opposite is true for local income taxes

Tobacco 21 New Jersey, Oregon, and Maine all raised the minimum legal sales age to 21 at the state level, bringing the total number of Tobacco 21 states to five