Cigarette sales went up last year for the first time in 20 years

That's sad news.... If I could talk kids out of ever trying one thing.... cigarettes would be it.... JUST DON'T...

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."The FTC compiled the report from data submitted by four major tobacco companies — Altria Group, the maker of Marlboros; ITG Holdings USA, which makes Winston and Kools; Reynolds American, with brands such as Camels and Pall Malls; and Vector Group Ltd., maker of Pyramid brand cigarettes.
The companies, the report said, increased advertising and promotion to $7.84 billion in 2020 from $7.624 billion the previous year, concentrating the bulk of their spending in "price discounts paid to cigarette retailers in order to reduce the price of cigarettes to customers," the FTC said."