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[California] SKELTON: Think of the tobacco tax as user fee

Prop. 29 on the June ballot would raise cigarette taxes and generate money for research on cancer and related illnesses.
Los Angeles Times
added May 7, 2012 07:10
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SIEGEL: Anti-Smoking Advocate Uses Bogus Research to Deny Overwhelming Scientific Evidence on Electronic Cigarettes

In other words, this study did not estimate quit rates among smokers trying to quit using e-cigarettes. Instead, it estimated quit rates among many smokers who were not using e-cigarettes in their quit attempt at all!
The Rest of the Story-Tobacco Analasys and Commentary (Michael Siegel blog)
added Jun 3, 2013 12:57
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GRIER: 4 Reasons Obama's Plan to Raise Tobacco Taxes Is a Bad Idea

1. Tobacco taxes are regressive. ... One may make the paternalistic argument that the tax makes some low-income smokers better off by forcing them to quit, but many who continue to smoke will be among those who can least afford it. 2. Smokers already
The Atlantic Monthly
added Apr 16, 2013 16:26
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[UK] STANLEY: If you really want to cause a stir, casually light up a cigarette when people least expect it

Yesterday, I found myself alone on Brighton pier in the rain, scoffing a doughnut and smoking a cigarette. It probably looked like my life had fallen apart and I was sleeping on the beach, but as I wheezed my way through lunch I deluded myself with the th
Electronic Telegraph blogs (uk)
added Mar 19, 2013 03:31
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SIEGEL: When You Don't Like the Evidence, Make Up Bogus Scientific Explanations to Dismiss It: Anti-Smoking Mantra, Part 3

Stan Glantz, who argued that all of these personal stories about smokers quitting using electronic cigarettes are invalid pieces of evidence because these smokers are quitting because of the "placebo effect" rather than because of the electronic cigarette
The Rest of the Story-Tobacco Analasys and Commentary (Michael Siegel blog)
added Jan 17, 2013 08:19
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ZUMER: The end of smoking as we know it

in seasons like this, it means standing outside in the freezing cold just waiting for your cigarette to burn down. I think smokers have been penalized enough, and I'm OK with running across some occasional smoke. It's kind of nostalgic, and it's a remin
Baltimore (MD) Sun
added Dec 10, 2012 15:56
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[New York] PATRICK BASHAM & JOHN LUIK: The great cigarette-tax lie

New York’s highest-in-the-nation cigarette taxes are failing to drive down smoking rates; instead, they’re just putting a heavy extra burden on poor New Yorkers. A new study funded by the state’s Department of Health confirms these ugly facts.
New York Post
added Oct 12, 2012 16:14
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[Australia, Canada] DEWHIRST: Price and tobacco marketing strategy: lessons from ‘dark’ markets and implications for WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

In such ‘dark’ markets, tobacco companies have shifted much of their promotional dollars towards the retail sector and pricing has become an ever more important part of tobacco firms’ marketing strategies.
Tobacco Control
added Oct 1, 2012 08:48
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[Florida] Marshall C. Deason Jr.: Why protect cigars that are aimed at children?

Chocolate, strawberry, watermelon, sour apple. If you think those flavors refer to ice cream or candy, think again. They're actually flavors of cigars.
Tallahassee (FL) Democrat
added Jul 15, 2012 13:08
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[Illinois] Dimitrios Kalantzis: California cigarette tax up in smoke

But beware any tax, fellow Illinoisans. Because the next one can affect you directly.
Kankakee (IL) Journal
added Jun 6, 2012 13:49
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