What are the best electronic cigarette brands? It has been only several years since electronic cigarettes stepped into the United States market. Nowadays vaping is gaining more and more in vogue. From year to year, we observe an increase in the e-cigarettes sales. So today we are going to talk about this decade smoking trend. According to National Institute on Drug Abuse, teens are more likely to use e-cigarettes than regular cigarettes. If to compare the age of young consumers, we will see the following interesting statistics: 16.2% 12th-grade teens in the United States consume electronic cigarettes versus 11.4% of…
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What are the top selling cigarettes in the World? Did you know that cigarettes are one of the best-selling products in the world? About 15 billion cigarettes are sold daily – or 10 million every minute. To reach such sales, companies needs a solid advertising campaign. That’s why cigarette advertising totalled approximately $8.49 billion in 2014. In 2014, about 80% (nearly $6.8 billion) of this was spent on price discounts paid to cigarette retailers or wholesalers to reduce the cost of cigarettes to consumers. Where all this money goes if we do not see cigarettes ads on TV? Well, actually…
What are the top selling comic book issues of 2015? The are two longtime competitors in the comics publishing known as Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Together they shared about 70% of the American comic book market in 2014. Insider Monkey made a list of the eleven top selling comic book issues in 2015. Marvel Comics publishes eight of them, so it’s easy to tell who’s 2015 leader in the market. DC Comics publishes only two comic books from the Insider Monkey’s list. They are Justice League #43 and Batman #43. One of them takes the third place in the…
What are the most expensive dog breeds to maintain? According to the studies of the ASPCA, the dog ownership cost in the USA is about $1,000. Such expenses include spaying or neutering ($200), training ($110), food ($120), initial medical exam ($70), annual medical exams ($235), pet health insurance ($225) and there are a lot more annual and one-time pet expenses. So actually costs can be categorised into three categories – food, medical and grooming. Price label varies from breed to breed of course. You might think that size matters in the subject of the maintain price, but it’s not always…
What are the worst Arab countries for human rights? How can we tell that? There is a document called the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). According to this declaration, the United Nations Human Rights organisation created a database which provides easy access to country-specific human rights information. The index allows the user to find out about human rights issues worldwide, and to see how the legal interpretation of international human rights law has evolved over the past ten years. Insider Monkey used this database to answer the question which is a topic of this article. There is a classification…
Have you ever wonder what are the most racist places in America according to Google? The United States of America is a multicultural country.People of many nations and races from all over the world built it. There were thousands of thousands of British, French, Spanish, Chinese, Dutch, etc. people who had come across the ocean before the American nation even existed. Not to speak of the countless people flows from the Africa. All these women and men who pushed American economy forward without any gratitude from the government but with a fist and a whip from their employers. Our world…
In the following article, we will answer the question: which state consumes the most ice cream per capita in America? A child from Ghana and an old man from Pennsylvania live in two completely different realities, but the do may have something in common. This thing might have thousands of variations of flavour and shape and ingredients, but in the end, it has one name. An ice cream. A chocolate one or white with a chocolate filling or maybe nut filling, the one with the fruits or with crispy flakes, ice cream in the sugar cone, an ice cream on…
Where is the highest suicide rate in America? Do you know that approximately one million people commit suicide each year worldwide (according to the World Health Organization)? This somber fact is showing to us that suicide is a big problem in our modern world. There are many factors which result in committing suicide like depression and abjection, desolation and solitude. With this in mind, we can tell that is not only the problem of developing countries because I regret to say these are the aspects of everyday life for many people in the developed countries like the United States. Just…
How to tell what are the dirtiest countries in Europe? The European Environment Agency knows the difference. Each year the agency obtains municipal water samples and does examination based on which specialists can tell bathing water quality. They consider beach cleanliness as well. In the end, we have a comprehensive water quality ranking. By the way, in Albania dirtiest beaches in whole Europe, but it’s not in the first place on our list. Besides water test, European Environment Agency does studies on air pollution. According to them, we could tell that the worst situation with air pollution is in Eastern…
What are the countries where gay marriage is legal? Let’s take a quick look back. About 30 years ago homosexual relations were judged by the society like a serious violation both of the legal and moral laws. Say nothing of a gay marriage. But with the increasing number of gay people in the countries all over the world public’s acceptance is changing too. One human generation is changing another and introducing new thinking of its society. Public opinion is becoming more mature and deprived of superstitions. With the development of the globalization tolerance to the homosexuality is spreading across the…
Do you know in which countries is hijab mandatory for foreigners? There are few countries in the world where the law force women to wear the hijab. ‘Why not in the all Muslim countries?’ would you ask. Most of us think that Islam has very strict rules for its followers and indeed it is. So why then dress code for women varies from country to country? Well, it’s mostly because of the Quran or more precisely of its interpretation because Arabic words often have several meanings. It is important to know who translated the Quran when and where. There are…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) surpassed $100 a share on Tuesday, being the first time that the stock rose to that level since June after it performed a seven-for-one stock split. The stock was trading above $600 in May this year just before the split. William Power, a senior researcher at Robert W. Baird, was on CNBC talking about the price move and the potential impact after the much-anticipated launch of iPhone 6. Power covers the wireless communications sector. Baird has an ‘Outperform’ outlook on the stock of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and a target price of $105. Power observed that the move…