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British Medical Bulletin 52:132-142 (1996)
© 1996 The British Council


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Price and consumption of tobacco

Joy Townsend

MRC Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, The Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital London, UK

Abstract

Progressive increases in cigarette tax rates provide a powerful contribution to policy for reducing cigarette consumption and generate extra government revenue. The policy has been most effective in groups for whom health publicity effects have been least so, but special provision may be necessary to avoid hardship to poor families.


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