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State Cigarette Tax Increase Would Cut Smoking Rate and Ease Costs
Publication Date: January 2006
Publisher(s): Indiana University. Center for Urban Policy and the Environment
Author(s): Frank J. Chaloupka; Eric R. Wright; Anthony H. Lawson; Kari Jo Christensen
Topic: Banking and finance (Taxation and tax policy)
Health (Preventive health services)
Type: Brief
Coverage: Indiana
Abstract:
This issue brief presents an analysis of the impact of an increase in the state cigarette excise tax. An increase would decrease smoking rates, increase revenue from state cigarette excise taxes, ease healthcare costs, and decrease the rates of premature death and smoking-related disease.