However, tobacco use poses a significant health, economic, and social burden globally, particularly in Africa, where resources are limited
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Youre going [to go] out there to make drug arrests.[89] Although the practice is outlawed in several states, some police departments operate a system of explicit or implicit arrest quotas.[90] Whether arrest numbers are formalized into quotas or understood as cultural expectations of a department, they may put some officers under immense pressure not only to make regular stops and arrests but to match or increase their previous numbers, in order to be seen as adequately productive.[91] In August 2015, twelve New York Police Department officers filed a class-action lawsuit against the department for requiring officers to meet monthly arrest and summons quotas, with one plaintiff noting that after being told he was dragging down the districts overall arrest rate, he was given more undesirable job assignments.[92] In an Alabama town, an officer claimed in 2013 to have been fired after publicly criticizing the police departments new ticket quota directives, which included making roughly 72,000 contacts (including arrests, tickets, warnings, and field interviews) per year in a town of 50,000 people.[93] Such departmental pressure to meet arrest quotas can easily lead to more arbitrary stops and searches
