USA - Internet Poses New Problems for Tobacco Control

(Reuters) Sales of cigarettes on the Internet are expected to soar in the coming decade and will pose new problems for tobacco controls to curtail underage smoking. In one of the first published studies into Web sites that sell cigarettes, Kurt Ribisl of the North Carolina School of Public Health and his colleagues found 88 Internet cigarette sellers in 23 states in the United States. 16 December 2001


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