10 To protect youth, laws that monitor and restrict cigarette marketing may need to be updated in response to tobacco companies' usage of mobile phone marketing and other new digital media
A 2015 study in which 11,842 individuals across 16 countries were interviewed found that in communities in low- income countries, 81 times more tobacco adverts were observed than in high- income countries
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In a 2012 report, the Washington-based Global Business Group on Health said Japans ownership of Japan Tobacco shares leads to a national conflict of interest, in which the government treats smoking as a behavioral issue rather than a health concern. Though smoking rates have started to decline in recent years, the Japanese remain heavy smokers, consuming about 1,841 cigarettes a person, according to data compiled last year by the World Lung Foundation and American Cancer Society