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Questioning the regressivity of tobacco taxes: a distributional accounting impact model of increased tobacco taxation

BACKGROUND: Tobacco taxes, as with other ‘sin taxes’, are generally regarded as a highly cost-effective mechanism to reduce consumption but are often considered by policymakers to be regressive, undermining efforts to fully implement them at levels recommended by the WHO due to concerns of fairness....

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Autores principales: Verguet, Stéphane, Kearns, Patrick K A, Rees, Vaughan W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8077213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32576701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2019-055315