This proposed tax seems certain to contribute to a greater incidence of lung diseases going forward.
"In the scramble to search for revenue to fund President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan, House Budget Chair John Yarmuth (D‑KY) added a nicotine tax to the ever-changing proposal. The proposed tax wouldn’t raise the price of traditional cigarettes, which are already taxed at the federal level, but it would introduce a massive new tax on e-cigarettes and other smoking alternatives, which research shows are dramatically safer options for smokers."
"Michael Pesko of Georgia State University, one of the country’s leading economists when it comes to analyzing the effect of e-cigarette taxes, estimates the new tax on nicotine alternatives would cause 2.7 million more daily adult smokers, 530,000 more teen smokers, and 29,000 more prenatal smokers.
This is because e-cigarettes are substitutes, not complements to combustible cigarettes, and millions of American ex-smokers have used these products to get off smoking traditional cigarettes."
https://reason.org/commentary/house...garettes-would-lead-to-millions-more-smokers/
"In the scramble to search for revenue to fund President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan, House Budget Chair John Yarmuth (D‑KY) added a nicotine tax to the ever-changing proposal. The proposed tax wouldn’t raise the price of traditional cigarettes, which are already taxed at the federal level, but it would introduce a massive new tax on e-cigarettes and other smoking alternatives, which research shows are dramatically safer options for smokers."
"Michael Pesko of Georgia State University, one of the country’s leading economists when it comes to analyzing the effect of e-cigarette taxes, estimates the new tax on nicotine alternatives would cause 2.7 million more daily adult smokers, 530,000 more teen smokers, and 29,000 more prenatal smokers.
This is because e-cigarettes are substitutes, not complements to combustible cigarettes, and millions of American ex-smokers have used these products to get off smoking traditional cigarettes."
https://reason.org/commentary/house...garettes-would-lead-to-millions-more-smokers/
