Figure 1 If youve ever been a smoker you can probably understand why demand for cigarettes is inelastic (I quit seven years ago after about 15 years)
Now, far be it from me to encourage , condone or suggest that smoking looks in any way cool or stylish (although, even as a life-long non-smoker personally I think it kind of maybe sorta does
Though the possibility can't be ruled out, the sight of people puffing away on paper-rolled, odd-smelling mixtures of tobacco and whatever else they can stuff in with it may contribute to persistent but unsubstantiated reports by visitors and foreign media outlets of widespread marijuana use
for a lazy old woman, and thought it was very strange that people could not get up at a decent, respectable time, unlocked and unbolted the door, and ran out
Addressing these gaps through rigorous future studies (e.g., well-controlled longitudinal cohorts, clinical trials, and mechanistic experiments adapted for adolescent participants) will be essential to draw more definitive conclusions and inform evidence-based public health guidance for youth vaping
