Markets in Everything, Healthy Cigarette Edition

Paul Schemm reports from Egypt:

Earlier this year, the state-owned manufacturer Eastern Tobacco Company voluntarily put pictures of diseased lungs on some packs — but smokers just figured those packs were the ones that were harmful and switched to others, which some shopowners promptly started selling at a higher price.

(Via The Arabist; HT Geens)

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