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Sin taxes and illicit tobacco: What the empirical research says - cigarettes...
Today my colleagues Aparna Mathur, Cody Kallen, and I published a working paper on illicit tobacco. We hope it is the first paper in a series on changes in the tobacco market. Taxes on tobacco products...
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Tax rates and illicit tobacco - cigarettes - AEI
Earlier this month my colleagues Aparna Mathur, Cody Kallen, and I published a working paper on illicit tobacco. Read the paper:The perverse effect of sin taxes: The rise of illicit white cigarettes As...
View ArticleWhat sin taxes accomplish: A Q&A with economist Aparna Mathur - cigarettes - AEI
Taxing cigarettes ostensibly serves two worthwhile goals: It decreases smoking, thus improving health outcomes, and it raises revenues, which can then be used to increase funding for public health or...
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How Pakistan’s cigarette taxes affect the war on terror - cigarettes - AEI
Pakistan has followed the usually sensible tactic of increasing cigarette excise duties in order to both raise revenue and lower smoking levels. There is an undoubted public health benefit from reduced...
View ArticlePhilip Morris stock tanks: How much is due to public health reticence about...
Tobacco company Philip Morris (PM) missed revenue targets last week and gave weak guidance on its new product sales in Japan. As a result the stock fell 17%. While the size of the fall may be an...
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Large Cigarette Tax Hikes, Illicit Producers, and Organized Crime: Lessons...
With the stated aim of increasing revenue and discouraging smoking, Pakistan raised tobacco duties over the past five years. The result empowered illicit actors, with a flourishing of illicit...
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Pakistan’s tobacco tax folly - cigarettes - AEI
Omar Lohdra, 31, makes his living selling cigarettes from his mobile kiosk. He sells all types of cigarettes — legal products; locally produced, duty-not-paid cigarettes (DNP); and a few products...
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By restricting vaping options, the FDA makes a mistake - cigarettes - AEI
The Wall Street Journal is reporting the FDA will restrict sales of vaping products because of a concern that under-age vapers will access the products. The FDA is concerned that teenagers are vaping...
View ArticleCigars: A love story or two - cigarettes - AEI
I got my wife through the Wall Street Journal. But before I go on, let me offer a spoiler alert: This article is about cigars, not about my non-mail-order wife (or Fidel Castro, for that matter). Just...
View ArticleVaping is harm reduction - cigarettes - AEI
“A lot of people still think e-cigarettes are not harmful,” U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said last week. “But studies show that nicotine is, pound for pound, as addictive as heroin.” Dr. Adams,...
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Vaping: Reshaping the FDA’s regulations | In 60 seconds
Even though vaping is much safer than cigarettes, the FDA’s regulations threaten to destroy the majority of the e-cigarette market. AEI Resident Scholar Sally Satel explains why and how FDA...
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A few comments on e-cigarettes and cigarette smoking among adolescents and...
In a recent JAMA Pediatrics article on the correlation between e-cigarette use and subsequent cigarette smoking among adolescents and young adults, Dartmouth demographer Samir Soneji and his co-authors...
View ArticleDiscussing FDA nicotine regulations: Satel on Fox News’‘America’s Newsroom’
The post Discussing FDA nicotine regulations: Satel on Fox News’ ‘America’s Newsroom’ appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.
View ArticleThe perverse effect of sin taxes: The rise of illicit white cigarettes
Abstract Illicit white cigarettes are cigarettes that are legal in the country of production, but are illegally smuggled into other markets where no tax is paid. This paper analyzes whether taxes...
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How high taxes drive the illicit cigarette market
High cigarette taxes lower demand and are good for government revenue and public health. Indeed, high tax rates have arguably been the most effective health policy tool when it comes to the dangers...
View ArticleThe perverse effect of sin taxes: The rise of illicit white cigarettes
Abstract In this paper, we define illicit white cigarettes as cigarettes that are legal in the country of production, but that are illegally smuggled into other markets without the payment of...
View ArticleVaping is a problem. Banning it would be, too.
Walmart is ready to stop selling e-cigarettes. The administration of President Donald Trump is moving to ban flavored e-cigarettes and nicotine pods. Opponents of vaping cheer these developments....
View ArticleThe vape ban and policymakers’ clouded judgment | IN 60 SECONDS
Although states and federal government are trying to protect public health by seeking to ban flavored e-cigarettes, they risk pushing vapers off a safer alternative and back onto deadly cigarettes or...
View ArticleVaping is much safer than smoking, regardless of the opinion of some public...
A recent public health editorial casts doubt on experts’ advice to switch from smoking to vaping if one cannot quit entirely. The author’s claim is based on uncertainty: “we don’t know whether...
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CDC and FDA may undermine health with contentious position on vaping
For over six months US health agencies have warned of the dangers of vaping e-cigarettes. According to one leading expert, the CDC (and to a lesser extent the FDA) has misled the public into thinking...
View ArticleAnti-vaping research paper retracted for being ‘unreliable’
The accusation that vaping doubles heart attacks was always suspicious, and now the paper underpinning the ludicrous claim has been retracted. When asked to explain some of the very odd findings the...
View ArticleWays and Means Committee Poised to Consider Harmful E-cigarette Tax
By Alan D. Viard In a recent post that drew on my earlier work with Alex Brill and Sally Satel, I pointed out that e-cigarette taxes pose a threat to public health. Regrettably, the House Ways and...
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House Reconciliation Bill Struggles with Biden’s Flawed $400,000 Tax Pledge
By Alan D. Viard During his successful presidential campaign last year, Joe Biden made a sweeping and misguided pledge about his tax plan: “Nobody making under 400,000 bucks would have their taxes...
View ArticleFollow the Money as Hochul Floats Tobacco Ban While Pushing Legal Marijuana
Governor Hochul has floated the idea of banning all sales of tobacco products in New York State, even as she urges New Yorkers to purchase and partake of now-legal cannabis. It’s not easy to see these...
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