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While the number of smokers has remained high, there’s been a sharp increase in the victims of second-hand smoke in the past five years, and the in the last three years the number has grown by 200 million.
According to a research conducted by 60 medical experts, economists and legal professors, tobacco is responsible for the rampant spread of the chronic diseases, and tobacco manufacturing is the most hazardous industry. The research report, “Tobacco Control and China’s Future,” revealed the medical costs and labor force loses caused by tobacco exceeds the revenue of the industry, which poses a negative value of the net social benefit, which was calculated at minus 60 billion yuan ($9.08 million) last year.
“The negative impact will be expanded in the next 20 years if tobacco is not controlled appropriately,” said Yang Gonghuan, deputy director from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the report, by 2030 three million people will die from diseases caused by smoking.
That figure accounts for a quarter of the total deaths,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a percentage over 20 points higher than for fatal diseases such as AIDS. In what makes the situation even grimmer, the government’s countermeasures have been less effective than anticipated.
Wilson Farms is cutting jobs and scaling back store investment, blaming economic fallout from a sharp increase in cigarette taxes Judy Penkack,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], manager of Wilson Farms at Elmwood and Sheridan,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], sorts through cigarettes. The convenience store chain is eliminating 20 administrative jobs and reducing store labor hours. imposed over the summer.
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Meanwhile, the state’s efforts to collect taxes on tobacco products sold by Native Americans to non-Indians are tied up in court. Nanula said the tax hike is not only hurting Wilson Farms’ cigarette sales,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but prompting some customers to bypass its stores altogether,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], cutting into sales of other items they might usually buy, like sandwiches and coffee.