This increase was partially a result of higher production costs and inflation, but also due to factors such as the federal cigarette tax, which now stands at $1.01 per pack, up from just $0.39 as recently as 2008
Factors Affecting Cigarette Freshness Packaging Integrity The packaging of cigarettes is designed to keep them fresh
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On the one side were low-church Bible Christianity, sex puritanism, insistence on hard work, respect for academic distinction, disapproval of self-indulgence: on the other, contempt for "braininess", and worship of games, contempt for foreigners and the working class, an almost neurotic dread of poverty, and, above all, the assumption not only that money and privilege are the things that matter, but that it is better to inherit them than to have to work for them
Kalle Lasn: Clearing the Mindscape. Adbusters Medial Foundation, 4 March 2009