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Building on existing controls, prices could potentially be made a bit higher, sales could be restricted to specialist licensed outlets (although again, potentially incentivising diversion/smuggling), and cigarettes could be made a bit more unattractive (there is a proposal for health information insets to be included in every pack, while in Canada health warnings are being printed on individual cigarettes)

With long-term exposure, nicotine can increase the number of nicotinic receptors, and can cause some receptors to become desensitized

Higher cigarette prices also reduce tobacco consumption expenditure among households

France followed suit by introducing a branded packaging ban on 1 January

Until April 2023, nicotine pouches were regulated under the Medicines Act, but have since been regulated by the Tobacco Act and the Chemicals Act (Sosiaali- ja terveysministeri, 2013

Under the law, the agency can regulate nicotine but cannot remove it completely