Researchers at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Michigan think tank, found that cigarettes illegally brought into Massachusetts jumped to 29.3 percent of all those smoked in 2014, up from 12 percent in 2013, the seventh-highest rate among states and largest year-over-year increase of any state
ENDS, HTPs and ONPs are marketed primarily in high-income countries, while tobacco products such as cigarettes remain heavily promoted in LMICs.128 129 An important question moving forward is the extent to which ENDS, HTPs or ONPs could be attractive to users of non-cigarette, combusted tobacco products (cigars, pipes, waterpipes, bidi, kretek) and users of traditional higher nitrosamine smokeless tobacco products
For brands, packaging is a key element that opens direct marketing channels for their products
a pack is for consumption, a carton for supply