Maximizing the Effectiveness of Tobacco Excise Taxes
Around the world, tobacco taxation and tax administration used by WHO formed a set of ‘best practices’ for maximizing the effectiveness of tobacco excise taxes. “Sugar, rum, and tobacco, are commodities which are no where necessaries of life, which are become objects...
Want to Know More About JUUL?
Vaping is the use of an electronic cigarette—a device which heats water, along with a flavor, nicotine and other chemicals, to a boiling point to allow inhalation of the vapor. The JUUL device, introduced in 2015 and now leading the market with over 40% of all sales...
Let’s Beat Cancer Sooner
Tobacco use causes at least 14 types of cancer. In the United States, smoking leads to 172,800 cancers each year. These include cancers of the lung, esophagus, pancreas, mouth & upper throat, bladder, bowel, kidney, larynx, stomach, liver, ovary, cervix, leukemia, and...
The cigarette giants were essentially trying to kill you all along
For the next 12 months, a blunt ad campaign will run on national networks 5 days a week and appear in dozens of national newspapers, all paid for Big Tobacco. According to the Motley Fool website, US tobacco companies Altria and Reynolds-American (owned by British...
Quit Now Indiana offers user-friendly tools to help you quit
Quit Now Indiana offers Web Coach® and Text2Quit.® These user-friendly features are designed to give you the support needed throughout the quitting process. Web Coach® and Text2Quit® will empower you to take control of your tobacco addiction and successfully quit for...
Smoke-free air policies help protect people from the harms of secondhand smoke
Secondhand smoke kills 49,000 Americans every year and is responsible for 3,000 lung cancer deaths of U.S. non-smokers annually. The latest Surgeon General’s Report on Tobacco Smoke says secondhand smoke is lethal for everyone. According to this report exposure to...