Metropolitan cities and tier 1 cities are considered to be major consumption centers in the cigarette industry
Thailand hiked up the excise tax on imported cigarettes from 87% to 90% of the imported price or up to the permitted ceiling, starting on February 9, 2016, resulting in prices for both local and imported cigarettes to go up THB5-10 (US$0.14-0.28) per packet
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Again, though, HEPA Filters cannot remove all of the dangerous particles from secondhand smoke, though they do take out a significant amount of them
Of note, the use of pack-years as a measure of cumulative tobacco exposure has been previously criticized on the grounds that it incorrectly assumes that smoking intensity and smoking duration have equal importance in determining lung cancer risk (ie, they are given equal weight in the calculation of a pack-year)
