The second point to consider is that since nicotine is an aid to maintaining a healthy weight, why are alleged health campaigners banning products like snus and e-cigarettes which not only get people off cigarettes but could control their weight as well?

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Like lotteries, which can be viewed as harmful but also help to fund state budgets, cigarettes are not a golden goose that one stubs out randomly or quickly.

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But we could not rule out that once they left here, the cigarettes may have ended up somewhere in the black markets of Italy or another European state.

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In New York, Bloomberg's heart may be in the right place, but merchants who want to sell cigarettes should be justifiably puzzled: If any product is not legal, then they should be barred from stocking it, but as long as it is, how can anyone presume to tell them where to display it -- or, more to the point, that they can't display it?

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Not exactly a breath-snatching business but one built solidly on two big sellers: gasoline and cigarettes.

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Inevitably, some products are going to fail the criteria needed to achieve an EcoLogo -- McDougall once had to politely reject a bid wanting organic cigarettes certified -- but he says in most cases that TerraChoice has studied there was not a malicious attempt to mislead.

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