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March 2003, Vol 93, No. 3 | American Journal of Public Health 416-418
© 2003 American Public Health Association

HEALTH POLICY AND ETHICS FORUM

A Balanced Tobacco Control Policy

Stephen D. Sugarman, JD

Stephen D. Sugarman is with the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Stephen D. Sugarman, JD, 327 Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-7200 (e-mail: sugarman{at}law.berkeley.edu).

By raising the price of cigarettes through tobacco taxes, policymakers might only be delaying some smokers’ initiation of smoking rather than permanently preventing them from smoking. This is one of several reasons for adopting a balanced tobacco control policy that relies only in part on cigarette taxation.






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