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The history of Big Tobacco targeting vulnerable groups Researchers credit these alarming trends to well-documented marketing tactics used by the tobacco industry to target vulnerable communities

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One source estimates that the Chinese cigarette counterfeiting business produces 400 billion cigarettes per year