Close, but no cigar: certain cigars are pseudo-cigarettes designed to evade regulation
Close, but no cigar: certain cigars are pseudo-cigarettes designed to evade regulation
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DOI：
10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2016-052935
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发表时间：
2017-05-01
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影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
O'Connor, Richard J.
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作者：
Delnevo, Cristine D.;Hrywna, Mary;O'Connor, Richard J.
大量证据表明，烟草业对卷烟监管加强的反应是开发小雪茄和过滤雪茄，这些烟草产品只不过是香烟的伪装。烟草业强调这些产品的物理属性，将雪茄产品作为假香烟提供给消费者。几十年来，烟草制造商对卷烟监管和税收增加的反应是利用政策漏洞，提供这些不受监管的小雪茄和过滤雪茄假卷烟。因此，尽管对卷烟的监管和税收增加，吸烟者仍可以以较低的成本购买到与卷烟在外观上几乎没有区别的雪茄。这篇评论描述了雪茄市场最近为响应联邦监管而发生的演变，并强调了雪茄行业历史上试图逃税、利用卷烟禁止的产品功能以及占领不断萎缩的卷烟市场的尝试。我们提出的案例是，小雪茄和过滤雪茄在物理上与香烟几乎没有什么区别，是值得同样监管审查的产品。
An abundance of evidence suggests that the tobacco industry's response to increased regulation imposed on cigarettes has been the development of little cigars and filtered cigars which are tobacco products that are merely cigarettes in disguise. Emphasising these products' physical attributes, the tobacco industry has offered cigar products to its consumers as pseudo-cigarettes. For decades, tobacco manufacturers' response to increased cigarette regulation and taxation has been to exploit policy loopholes by offering these little cigars and filtered cigars pseudo-cigarettes that are exempted from this regulatory oversight. As a result, in spite of increased regulations and taxes on cigarettes, smokers can purchase cigars that are almost physically indistinguishable from their cigarettes at a lower cost. This commentary describes the recent evolution of the cigar market in response to federal regulation, and highlights historical cigar industry attempts to evade taxation, capitalise on product features that are off-limits to cigarettes, and capture the shrinking market of cigarette smokers. We present the case that little cigars and filtered cigars, differing very little physically from cigarettes, are products deserving the same regulatory scrutiny.