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  1. Plain packaging on cigarettes – could it actually increase smoking?

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    February 6, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith

    Here’s an easy task. Explain to someone why anyone who opposes the policy of removing branding from cigarette packets must …
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  2. Laffer says tobacco taxes should be lower…but follow the money

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    July 20, 2014 by Paul Goldsmith

    When Arthur Laffer speaks about tax, people listen. So when he delivered his opinion that tobacco taxes could be too …
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