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As a robustness check, a two-stage least squares fixed-effects model was also estimated, instrumenting price with the excise tax share of the most sold brands retail price.1315 Results Trends in sales and prices Between 2008 and 2022, cigarette stick sales decreased globally by 11.6% (AAPC=0.9) (figure 1), driven by significant decreases in the Americas (40.6%, AAPC=3.6) and Europe (40.9%, AAPC=3.7)

It is still too early to work out the potential health effects of vaping - but experts agree they will be significantly lower than cigarettes

Other local brands are sold in local markets like Russian Optima, Mexican - Delicados, Indonesian - Sampoerna, Philipines Fortune

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In 2020 Philip Morris Internationals main rival, British American Tobacco, announced that it, too, would move away from the cigarette business and concentrate instead on switching smokers to newer products it described as posing a reduced risk, such as its Vuse vaping device