Access to the data was obtained from Data and Specimen Hub (DASH) 16 under a data use agreement between the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and Qatar University (ECHO-QU-2023-0418)
Honestly, I'm forever grateful to Jen [Statsky] and Lucia [Aniello] and Paul [Downs] for writing that for me because nobody was wanting me to do anything dramatic, you know
People may end up in the hospital with asthma attacks, strokes, heart attacks and other emergencies, and in the most dire cases, die
This was termed e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) and although it was eventually traced to the addition of vitamin E acetate to local illicit marijuana products 42,43 , it was widely reported internationally, including in the United Kingdom, as being related to nicotine vaping 44
Correlation between tax hikes and illicit product surges Indias repeated tax increases indeed show a rather clear correlation with the increase in illicit cigarettes (see chart)
