These products pose a significant threat to public health, especially for young people: nicotine addiction is harmful to developing brains and high rates of daily and frequent use could put young users at risk for nicotine addiction
Unknowing to the consumer, any number of these counterfeit products may contain highly toxic ingredients such as mold, rat feces, traces of lead and arsenic and asbestos dust
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Controversy [edit] Canadian class-action lawsuit [edit] The three largest Canadian tobacco companies, Imperial Tobacco Canada, JTI-Macdonald Corp, and Rothmans Benson & Hedges, were the subject of the largest class-action lawsuit in Canadian history, brought by current and former smokers