The 27% decline in US sales of tobacco products between 2000 and 2011 was due in part to this effect of tobacco taxes.
What is increased retail price?
100
In a 2004 study, it was found that tobacco cigarettes contain over 7,000 chemicals - hundreds of which are toxic, 70 of which are known to cause this.
What is cancer?
100
blu, NJOY, and Logic e-Cigs - all brands started as this type of business- were the leaders in the market when e-cigarettes first arrived in the mid 2000's.
What are e-cigarette start-ups?
100
Due to restrictions in others areas of tobacco sale and delivery, this market of tobacco sales was effectively banned.
What is the online market?
100
In 2011, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act that attempted to require cigarette packaging to include these, showing the negative health effects of cigarettes, was denied.
What are color graphics?
200
In 2003, Chinese pharmacist, Hon Lik, invented the electronic cigarette which allows users to ingest nicotine through this "smokeless" method.
What is vaporization, "vaping", to vaporize, to "vape"?
200
Dependence on this drug was the most common form of chemical dependence in the US 2010.
What is nicotine?
200
The absence of this governmental demand, paired with lesser prices compared to tobacco products, make e-cigarettes more economical for both retailers and consumers.
What are excise taxes?
200
Under the Tobacco Act of 2009, these types of tobacco products were banned (except for menthol).
What are flavored cigarettes?
200
This e-cigarette brand marketed its product to consumers who wanted to look "cool and edgy" while using its device with a colored tip; an effort to solve the social stigma of smoking.
What is blu?
300
Phillip Morris, Reynolds American, and Lorillard accounted for 86% of the volume this industry in 2011.
What is the cigarette industry?
300
These over-the-counter products created a $528 million market in 2012.
What are smoking cessation products?
300
In the mid-2000's e-cigarettes were only sold online, and at shopping mall kiosks, which allowed the retailer to use this marketing strategy to reach new customers.
What is live demonstration?
300
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 banned the US Postal Service from delivering tobacco products; these two companies voluntarily opted out of delivery.
What are UPS and FedEx?
300
Intention to quit smoking was lower for teens using this type of tobacco product - and 36% of smoking teens used this type that was not banned under the Tobacco Control Act of 2009.
What are flavored cigarillos, little cigars, cigarettes?
400
People who had not begun smoking, by this age, were likely never to begin.
What is 26?
400
In 2010, a CDC study found that while more that half of all smokers tried to quit at least once a year, only 6.2% were successful; this could be because nicotine is as addictive as these three drugs.
What are heroine, cocaine, and alcohol.
400
This industry worried about e-cigarettes competing with its advertising and sale of smoking cessation aids.
What is the pharmaceutical industry?
400
Due to restrictions on advertising, tobacco companies had to rely on these forms of marketing to drive sales.
What are point of sale promotions, in-store signage, and shared shelf space?
400
The Center for Disease Control identified these two components as important in promoting tobacco use in teens.
What are advertising and peer group accessibility?
500
In a 2010-2013 study, smokers were given e-cigarettes as cessation aids; they proved to be less effective than these two other cessation aids.
What are nicotine nasal sprays and patches?
500
$48.3 billion, in these costs that impact the public, were expected in 2013 due to smoking.
What are health care costs?
500
By 2013, this e-cigarette brand was sold in 60,000 retail outlets in all fifty states, and its sales were expected to top $100 million that year.
What is NJOY?
500
More than two dozen US states enacted legislation to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors, and as of 2013, this US state was the only one to enact a tax, similar to that of tobacco products, on e-cigarettes.
What is Minnesota?
500
In 2013, attorneys general from 40 states petitioned the FDA to regulate the ingredients, sale, and advertising of e-cigarettes to minors, citing inappropriate use of marketing tools like advertising candy flavored products and using these characters.