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='''Unintended Consequences of Taxes and Bans - Law Enforcement'''= <!--T:62--> | ='''Unintended Consequences of Taxes and Bans - Law Enforcement'''= <!--T:62--> | ||
===2014: [https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eric-garner-dies-nypd-chokehold Eric Garner dies in NYPD chokehold]=== <!--T:63--> | ===2014: [https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eric-garner-dies-nypd-chokehold Eric Garner dies in NYPD chokehold]=== <!--T:63--> | ||
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===2018: [https://regulatorwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Michelle_Minton_-_Fear_Profiteers-3-1.pdf Fear Profiteers]=== <!--T:66--> | ===2018: [https://regulatorwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Michelle_Minton_-_Fear_Profiteers-3-1.pdf Fear Profiteers]=== <!--T:66--> | ||
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*Since 1996, RWJF has given more than $22 million to Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights and its educational arm, American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation. In addition to RWJF, American Nonsmokers’Rights received nearly $5 million between 1995 and 1999 from the California Department of Health Services raised from California’s Prop 99 cigarette tax increase—to compile what several media outlets, including The Los Angeles Times, described as an “enemies list.” This involved monitoring and distributing information about people who spoke out against tobacco control policies at city council meetings, and even investigating a judge who had ruled unfavorably in a secondhand smoking case." | *Since 1996, RWJF has given more than $22 million to Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights and its educational arm, American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation. In addition to RWJF, American Nonsmokers’Rights received nearly $5 million between 1995 and 1999 from the California Department of Health Services raised from California’s Prop 99 cigarette tax increase—to compile what several media outlets, including The Los Angeles Times, described as an “enemies list.” This involved monitoring and distributing information about people who spoke out against tobacco control policies at city council meetings, and even investigating a judge who had ruled unfavorably in a secondhand smoking case." | ||
*The "growing market for alternative tobacco products created new competitors for traditional tobacco companies and manufacturers of pharmaceutical nicotine. Declining cigarette sales, and declining cigarette tax revenues, also threaten to tighten the spigot of money flowing to anti-tobacco activists. | *The "growing market for alternative tobacco products created new competitors for traditional tobacco companies and manufacturers of pharmaceutical nicotine. Declining cigarette sales, and declining cigarette tax revenues, also threaten to tighten the spigot of money flowing to anti-tobacco activists. | ||
===2018: [https://www.pulmonologyadvisor.com/home/topics/smoking/the-unintended-consequences-of-cigarette-taxation/ The Unintended Consequences of Cigarette Taxation]=== <!--T:68--> | ===2018: [https://www.pulmonologyadvisor.com/home/topics/smoking/the-unintended-consequences-of-cigarette-taxation/ The Unintended Consequences of Cigarette Taxation]=== <!--T:68--> | ||
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*Cigarette taxes are regressive. Poor New Yorkers spend close to a quarter of their income (23.6%) on tobacco. | *Cigarette taxes are regressive. Poor New Yorkers spend close to a quarter of their income (23.6%) on tobacco. | ||
*Only about half of the families that qualify are enrolled in SNAP, but when cigarette taxes go up, people sign up in droves, so much so that, after a tax hike, an eligible but unenrolled household is almost 10 times as likely to sign up for food stamps than to have a member quit smoking. (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp program, is a federal benefit program that helps low-income households buy food.) | *Only about half of the families that qualify are enrolled in SNAP, but when cigarette taxes go up, people sign up in droves, so much so that, after a tax hike, an eligible but unenrolled household is almost 10 times as likely to sign up for food stamps than to have a member quit smoking. (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp program, is a federal benefit program that helps low-income households buy food.) | ||
='''Unintended Consequences - From Black Markets to Deals With Big Tobacco'''= <!--T:70--> | ='''Unintended Consequences - From Black Markets to Deals With Big Tobacco'''= <!--T:70--> | ||
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===[https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220512/Tobacco-tax-may-be-associated-with-higher-e-cigarette-use-among-young-people.aspx Tobacco tax may be associated with higher e-cigarette use among young people]=== | ===[https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220512/Tobacco-tax-may-be-associated-with-higher-e-cigarette-use-among-young-people.aspx Tobacco tax may be associated with higher e-cigarette use among young people]=== | ||
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