Other than cigarettes, cigars and popularity
By Matt McMillen
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
2 Aug. 2012--People light up cigarettes less these days, but the number of cigars and the quantities of tobacco pipe used for has its smoked each year is on the rise.
And, while the overall amount of tobacco consumption continues to drop, that the decrease in the fall. Between 2010 and 2011, tobacco use fell by less than 1%. The reason could be economic, at least in part, as the industry is finding ways around the taxes meant to discourage smoking.
"The data suggest that some smokers have switched from cigarettes to other tobacco combustible, primarily from the 2009 increase in the federal tobacco excise tax differences between product types created," write the authors of the report, part of the CDC morbidity and mortality weekly report for Aug. 3.
Smokers puffed for more than 435 billion cigarettes in 2000. By last year the number fell by a third to less than 300 billion. These same 11 years old, but also Saw cigarette tobacco consumption more than doubled, from about 15 billion cigarettes equivalents to nearly 34 billion, a 123% increase.
More than other types of tobacco smokers really had to pipe tobacco has its. Report, the CDC estimates that such consumption has increased by nearly 500% of the tobacco between 2000 and 2011. Pipe tobacco, the report States, the Germans executed in popularity after the 2009 excise duties increased the price of tobacco to cigarettes equivalent. The authors suggest that route prices, have contributed to 573% growth in consumption of tobacco pipe between 2008 and 2011.
In accordance with the Editorial Note attached to the report which has become so popular is a pipe of tobacco in name only. Producers of tobacco to cigarettes simply relabeled their product as a pipe of tobacco in order to avoid the new tax. They then marketed their "pipe tobacco" tobacco as it ought to. Nothing changed but the labels.
In the meantime, in order to avoid the tax, which increases the retail prices of the producers of such "small" cigars, cigars the size of cigarettes simply adds some additional weight to their product. Which allowed them to be classified as "large" category not taxed as aggressively. Consumption of such cigars you will see 233% between 2000 and the 2011.
Report of the Surgeon General, note the authors, it was found that smoking cigarettes, cigars and other products not becoming more popular among teenagers and young people.
"The increase in smoking cigars that show test is a growing problem among youth and adults, is cause for alarm," Tim McAfee, MD, MPH, Director of the Office by the CDC on smoking and health, says in a news release.
"The increase in prices was one of the most effective ways to reduce tobacco use and prevent youth smoking initiation," they write. "The public health impact of excise duty increases and regulation may hinder efforts to prevent youth smoking initiation, reducing consumption and Prompt closure of the programme."
SOURCE: News release, CDC. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 3 Aug. 2012.© 2012 WebMD, LLC. All rights reserved.
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