Earlier, cigarettes were taxed mainly under GST
Almost all of the island's population is overweight, and just under half regularly smoke, making Nauru the unhealthiest country in the world
Classifying patients according to their history of smoking has helped to understand lung cancer's gene mutations over the past decade, but researchers have found that this is not the best strategy for treating individual patients
Liu Y, Gao J, Shou J, Xia H, Shen Y, Zhu S, et al
While the timeline to see this rule come to fruition will likely still be long, it would be an enormous step in the commercial tobacco control endgame and would mean huge gains in public health