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Russell C. Callaghan, PhD, Joey Tavares and Lawren Taylor

The authors are with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Russell Callaghan, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Russell Street, Toronto, ON M5S 2S1, Canada (e-mail: russell_callaghan@camh.net).

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Tobacco taxation is a key mechanism for reducing smoking consumption and prevalence in the general population. Few studies, however, have acknowledged the disproportionately heavy tobacco tax burden placed upon some groups—usually poor, marginalized populations—in the drive for population-based public health goals.¹ Shelley et al.² recently examined the relations between a large tax increase in New York State and the development of a pervasive, illicit cigarette market in a low-income minority community and described the financial burden of smoking among the poor who had not quit. Our letter extends these qualitative findings in 2 ways: by examining similar issues in a . . . [Full Text]