A new study suggests making cigarettes cheaper would risk making smoking-related poverty in Australia worse overall, given it could lead to more people smoking.
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The legislation, which aims to make it easier to prosecute those involved in the illicit tobacco trade, is more of the same: punitive, but still not effective.
The illicit market for tobacco is not an inevitable result of high excise taxes.
A 75% cut in tobacco tax won’t make cigarettes as cheap as you might think. Here’s what really helps smokers in a cost of living crisis.
Critics of the tobacco excise argue the tax has stopped working to further reduce smoking rates and should be lowered.
Despite the government taxing tobacco at higher and higher rates, revenue continues to fall. There’s no easy solution.
A larger than expected drop in inflation data has boosted the chances of an interest rate cut as soon as February.
Research shows that a higher excise tax rate on tobacco would result in a decrease in the number of people who smoke.
The biggest problem in the Indonesian universal healthcare program is that members’ contribution is less than the spending to pay claims for hospitals and other health services.
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Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Taxation, Discipline of Accounting, Governance & Regulation, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Senior lecturer, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
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Professor of Business Regulation, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Behaviour, School of Psychology, Deakin University
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Professor of Law and Governance, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow at The Daffodil Centre, University of Sydney
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Senior Biostatistician at the Daffodil Centre, Cancer Council NSW, University of Sydney
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UQ Amplify Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Deakin University
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Lecturer in Department of Economics,, Universitas Indonesia
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Research fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland