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President Obama’s budget proposal includes a hike in tobacco taxes. Right now, taxes are so high in some places (e.g., New York City, Chicago) that evasion happens on a grand scale and the black market in untaxed cigarettes is thriving.Meanwhile,...
I am an emphatic tobacco control advocate. My mother-in-law and my father-in-law both died horribly and young of lung cancer. I yield to no one in my desire to tax the hell out of cigarettes, require aggressive warning labels, the...
Keynesians, this new National Bureau of Economic Research paper will resonate.Losing Heart? The Effect of Job Displacement on HealthSandra Black, Paul Devereux and Kjell Salvanes NBER Working Paper No. 18660 Issued in December 2012 NBER Program(s): HE LS Job reallocation...
A quick post on the cost of smoking v. cost of guns, given the intuitive notion that second hand smoke and violence might be (conceptually) similar. I am not an expert on guns, and this is a quick post, given...
I’ve taken a lot of heat for my stance on preventive care. Unlike a lot of politicians, I’ve often held that it doesn’t necessarily save a lot of money. It might, sometimes, but it doesn’t always. After all, if you...