Seaport duty free, particularly on cruise lines and Baltic/Mediterranean ferry routes, is also experiencing a renaissance as cruise tourism reaches record passenger numbers globally, with cigarette sales benefiting from the extended captive consumer environment characteristic of multi-day sea voyages
There are no government figures on how many tourists come specifically to smoke marijuana, but Kueakarun Thongwilai, the manager of a weed shop in central Bangkok, estimates at least 70%-80% of his customers are foreigners, primarily from Asian countries like Japan, Malaysia, China and Philippines, and some from Europe
Most market estimates predict continued growth but there are concerns about the impact of misinformation about teen vaping, scares about vaping-related lung injury and deaths, COVID-19 and the increasingly belligerent attitude towards safer nicotine products among legislators
62 FR 64634, Dec
Only 6.4 per cent of Swedes aged over 15 were daily smokers in 2019, the lowest in the EU and far below the average of 18.5 per cent across the 27-nation bloc, according to the Eurostat statistics agency
The FDA issued modified risk grant orders to Swedish Match USA, Inc
