cigarette tax economics Should taxes on cigarettes be increased? Raising taxes on tobacco

Some people prefer a quick smoke

Secondhand smoke kills. The BBC projected that [banning] smoking in public places could prevent hundreds of deaths from heart disease. Wire services carried the result around the globe, and even the conservative Wall Street Journal cited the result as an important finding

This does not mean it should be assumed to be a safe practice

Brennis: Grmmmble, grrr Brennis: You and your fancy suits and your nose holes way up in the air Brennis: Sticking your empty beer bottles down the message tubes, how fancy is that

Most notable in this theme are the 20,679 Physicians advertisements, which ran from 1928 to 1932 and claimed that physicians found Lucky Strike cigarettes less irritating. The campaign began with a smaller number of physicians listed, as our ads demonstrate: An ad from 1927 claims that 9,651 doctors answered yes to an arbitrary survey question released by the American Tobacco Company regarding protection of the throat