and a cigarette importer as any person that is authorized, under a valid permit, to import finished cigarettes in the United States, either directly or indirectly
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E-cigarettes, it should be noted, deliver nicotine to users in a manner so much safer than smoking actual tobacco that the U.K.'s Royal College of Physicians says that "e-cigarettes are likely to be beneficial to UK public health" and that policy should "enable and encourage smokers to use the product instead of tobacco." "[E]-cigarette use among California adults was about 4 percent in 2013, nearly doubling compared to the prior year," according to the Legislative Analyst's Office, while cigarette smoking has stalled at 12 percent after declining over the years
