WHO: Stop Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products

The World Health Organization is calling for an end to the illicit trade in tobacco products, which reportedly rakes in yearly profits of $31 billion.  In advance of World No Tobacco Day (May 31), the U.N. agency is urging member states to sign an international treaty to eliminate this nefarious trade.   While the peddlers of contraband cigarettes and other tobacco products are getting richer, everyone else is getting poorer.  The price of a single cigarette sold on a city...

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