| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 36 Taxation |
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| The New York tobacco tax is now $1.11 per pack. |
| New York Times, December 18, 1999, p. A1 |
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| For teenagers, the "price elasticity of demand" for cigarettes is three times higher |
| than the estimate for adults. For each 10% increase in the price of cigarettes, the |
| demand falls by 14.4%, with most of this being 12% fewer teens making the decision |
| not to begin to smoke at all. In Canada between 1979 and 1991, largely because of |
| tax increases, the percentage of teenagers ages 15 to 17 who smoke dropped from |
| 47% to 16%. |
| Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People, 1994 Surgeon General report, p. |
| 271, and Canadian Medical Association Journal, June 15, 1992, p. 2231 |
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| "This talk of $2 a pack is scaring us to death, and that's putting it mildly." |
| Congressman Charlie Rose (D-NC). "Tobacco Country is Quaking over Cigarette Tax |
| Proposal" (New York Times, March 22, 1993, p. A14). But the Wall Street Journal |
| reported on March 12, 1993 that 70% of Americans believe that a $2-per-pack |
| tobacco tax increase is an acceptable way to help pay for health care reform |
| (SCARC, March 3, 1993). And Jimmy Carter wrote: "Our children are the most |
| important reason for a major tobacco tax increase" (New York Times, March 3, 1993, |
| p. 16). |
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