Conclusion There is sufficient evidence that cigarette filters are a fraud, primarily acting as a marketing tool with which the tobacco industry has deceived the public into believing there is some health benefit from smoking filtered cigarettes compared with unfiltered cigarettes
Young people perceived them as uncool
I guess you only have to look at the graffiti of figures such as Banksy and other loosely anti-capitalist aligned artists, and then onto late-adopters such as bands like Hard-Fi, to see that, two decades later, it has practically become a great pop culture icon of the times
Mind you, Lynch actually started out as a visual artist, and since half of the work displayed was created before his film career (the other half being more current pieces), its ridiculous to say this isnt a coherent body of work
The mechanism of excise tax The biggest reason why tobacco in NZ is expensive is Excise Duty