Since then, however, in an environment of supply chain constraints, higher interest rates, and growing economic uncertainty, we have seen a drop in existing home sales below pre-pandemic levels, and relative stagnation in new home sales
other than "homogenised" or "reconstituted" or "smoking", with a 16% share
Further increases in the taxes on traditional cigarettes, new restrictions on where they can be sold and smoked, bans on specific cigarette varieties and flavors, more aggressive public-health messages about the dangers of cigarettes, and the like could push more of these users to shift farther away from cigarettes and toward vapes, reducing their exposure to the carcinogens in cigarettes and improving life expectancy
Liu Mingqiao of Chaoyang Hospital in Beijing