Health, Health Inequality, and Cost Impacts of Annual Increases in Tobacco Tax: Multistate Life Table Modeling in New Zealand.

Health, Health Inequality, and Cost Impacts of Annual Increases in Tobacco Tax: Multistate Life Table Modeling in New Zealand.

Countries are increasingly considering how to reduce or even end tobacco consumption, and raising tobacco taxes is a potential strategy to achieve these goals. We estimated the impacts on health, health inequalities, and health system costs of ongoing tobacco tax increases (10% annually from 2011 to...

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Main Authors: Tony Blakely, Linda J Cobiac, Christine L Cleghorn, Amber L Pearson, Frederieke S van der Deen, Giorgi Kvizhinadze, Nhung Nghiem, Melissa McLeod, Nick Wilson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-07-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4517929?pdf=render

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