10/11-10/17

The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies has released results claiming that smoking bans are effective in reducing the risk of heart attacks. The bans against smoking in public places as well as more health-safe cigarettes are leading to a decline in secondhand smoke related heart attacks. As long as they continue to see a decline, more and more states I'm sure will adopt these bans against smoking cigarettes. These bans are why the prices of cigarettes keep going up, causing less people to buy cigarettes. The government is slowly weening people off of the need for cigarettes, which is hurting the stocks of the cigarette industry very much. As long as the industry doesn't have to increase the price of cigarettes too high, they may not notice a difference. Let's hope for that.