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Federal taxes on cigarettes went up 250% to pay for health care/SCHIP in the past 30 years or so. There is a pretty good correlation with smoking rates and cos
by stevenwoo 9y ago
Federal taxes on cigarettes went up 250% to pay for health care/SCHIP in the past 30 years or so. There is a pretty good correlation with smoking rates and cost of cigarettes.
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.82.1.94 http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.82.1.9...
- labster 9y agoTaxes do work, though demand for tobacco is relatively inelastic: http://www.who.int/tobacco/economics/meetings/dublin_demand_for_tob_feb2012.pdf http://www.who.int/tobacco/economics/meetings/dublin_demand_...