Sir Paul Nurse, chief executive of Cancer Research UK said: "Our research has shown that tobacco advertising discourages existing smokers from trying to quit, and it encourages new smokers to take up the habit
The goal of all tax policy, at least to a certain extent, is revenue generation, but a guiding principle is that excise taxes should only be levied when appropriate to capture some externality or to create a user pays systemnot as a general revenue measure
The late Professor Konrad Jamrozik, whose expertise included epidemiology, estimated that in 2013, 63 years after the publication of the first evidence of the dangers of smoking, tobacco will claim its one millionth Australian victim
However, this loss in Medicaid funding was more than offset by new $367 million available for Medicaid funding in the Hospital Provider Fund, since all of the increase in the tax rate was designated to the fund