Smokes and cyberspace: a public health disaster in the making

Smokes and cyberspace: a public health disaster in the making Three articles in this month's journal raise serious concerns about the internet becoming the future marketplace for the sale of cigarettes. 1-3 One seller predicts that 20% of all cigarettes will be sold over the internet in 10 years. The warning is clear: if the tobacco industry embraces this new unregulated medium, many of the major public interventions that we have developed to curb real world lung cancer could go up in a puV of cyber smoke. Taxes, ad bans, and youth access laws are easily eroded online.