Hefty Cigarette Taxes Urged to Fight Lung Cancer
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Contributed by Lisa Olen| 12 May, 2005 23:32 GMT
'Tobacco manufacturers continue ruthlessly to promote a pastime that will kill 50% of those who acquire the habit. The least we should do is match this 50% mortality with a 50% tax.'
Government-imposed annual price increases of 50% on cigarettes could help to prevent a worldwide epidemic of lung cancer, states an editorial in this week's issue of
The Lancet.
Lung cancer has become the most common cancer worldwide. Of the 1 |
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