I can tell you as a vascular surgeon, so much of the heartbreaking medical conditions that I had to deal with over those years was related to tobacco, so Im relatively unconcerned with the politics of it
Experience shows that these illegal activities can be controlled by legal means (e.g., use of prominent tax stamps, serial numbers, special package markings, health warning labels in local languages, adoption of uniform tax rates nationwide that facilitate successful collection at the points of manufacture and import), and by increased law enforcement (e.g., improving corporate auditing, better trace and tracking systems, and good governance)
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When our not-dead duo team up again, they find the government has been gathering medical data on most of the population, including Scully and Samantha