Even the traditional cigarette made something of a comeback, prompting one tobacco executive to observe that the pandemic's limits on social gatherings provided smokers more opportunities to indulge their habit without fear of social disapproval 1 That consumers can purchase such products from grocery stores and other retail outlets deemed too essential to shutter during a lockdown underscores the relatively privileged position of psychoactive commodities in the U S political economy Courtwright thus uses the same analytical frame to evaluate markets for alcohol and cigarettes alongside markets for store-bought foods that entice consumers with their seductive blend of fat, sugar, and salt;video games and electronic slot machines that continually beckon users to play just one more round;and the social media apps that keep us tethered to our smartphones The tobacco industry drew upon "a bottomless bag of marketing tricks," from engineering cigarettes to make them more addictive to flooding "low-tax markets with popular brands in expectation that they would be smuggled into high-tax markets and sold on the street or in shops and bars" (pp 155–56) [ ]the growth of informal economies, multinational industries, transnational criminal networks, and borderless trade" spread vices around the globe and made "their suppression increasingly futile" (p 156)

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心理活动的力量和政治

甚至传统卷烟也卷土重来，促使一位烟草高管观察到，大流行对社交聚会的限制为吸烟者提供了更多机会来放纵自己的习惯，而不必担心遭到社会反对 1 消费者可以从杂货店和其他零售店购买此类产品被认为在封锁期间关闭太重要了强调精神活性商品在美国政治经济中的相对特权地位考特赖特因此使用相同的分析框架来评估酒精和香烟市场以及商店购买的食品市场，这些市场以其诱人的混合诱惑消费者脂肪、糖和盐；不断吸引用户再玩一轮的视频游戏和电子老虎机；以及将我们束缚在智能手机上的社交媒体应用程序烟草业利用了“一袋无底的营销技巧”，从设计香烟，使他们更容易上瘾，以期让“低税市场”充斥着流行品牌，期望它们走私到高税收市场并在街上或商店和酒吧出售”（第 155-56 页）[]非正规经济、跨国产业、跨国犯罪网络和无国界贸易的增长“在全球范围内传播了恶习，并使得”他们的压制越来越徒劳”（第 156 页）流行品牌的低税市场，期望它们会被走私到高税市场并在街头或商店和酒吧出售”（第 155-56 页）[]非正规经济、跨国产业、跨国犯罪网络的增长和无国界贸易”在全球范围内传播罪恶，并使“他们的镇压越来越徒劳”（第 156 页）流行品牌的低税市场，期望它们会被走私到高税市场并在街头或商店和酒吧出售”（第 155-56 页）[]非正规经济、跨国产业、跨国犯罪网络的增长和无国界贸易”在全球范围内传播罪恶，并使“他们的镇压越来越徒劳”（第 156 页）