Re:Why are today's teens putting off driving, dating and dri...
by stevenwoo on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @10:07PM
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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 cost of cigarettes.
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.82.1.9...
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Re:Why are today's teens putting off driving, dating and dri...
by labster on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @01:21AM
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Taxes do work, though demand for tobacco is relatively inelastic: http://www.who.int/tobacco/economics/meetings/dublin_demand_...