Cigarette Tax

  • Read more: Designing policy interventions in the context of obesity—what we can learn from the effects of cigarette taxes on children’s health
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    Designing policy interventions in the context of obesity—what we can learn from the effects of cigarette taxes on children’s health

    By Diana Winters (@diana3000) [Cross-posted at HealthLawProf Blog.] An important new study shows that a child will most likely be healthier throughout her childhood if a tax on cigarettes is in place when her mother is pregnant. Economist David Simon (who, full disclosure, is my cousin) at the University of Connecticut has extended the findings…

  • Read more: Need Revenue? Taxes that Promote Health
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    Need Revenue? Taxes that Promote Health

    The Congressional Budget Office just released a comprehensive new report investigating the budgetary effects of a hypothetical increase in the federal excise tax on cigarettes and small cigars from, $1.01 to $1.51 in fiscal year 2013. The report’s level of sophistication is unprecedented in its ability to evaluate the effects this change could have. Given…