Teenage Smoking: Higher Excise Tax Should Significantly Reduce the Number of Smokers : Report to the Honorable Michael A. Andrews, House of Representatives

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The Office, 1989 - 32 pages
 

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Page 3 - In the national household survey on drug abuse conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) in the United States, the lifetime prevalence of alcohol use was reported to be 88.
Page 1 - FY 1990 estimate for contraceptive research is $20.5 million. TEENAGE SMOKING Question. The Surgeon General of the United States has labeled smoking the most important preventable cause of death in our society. Currently over four million teenagers are hooked on this legal drug. Because most adult smokers became addicted when they were teenagers, you can predict that preventing teen smoking probably would reduce the adult population that smokes and save a great deal of time. In a report issued last...
Page 26 - Smoking," presented at the Fifth World Conference on Smoking and Health, Winnipeg, July 1983, cited in Warner, 1986, p.
Page 17 - Surveys by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (predecessor of the Department of Health and Human Services) asked teenagers what the possibility was of them being cigarette smokers in 5 years; half of the regular smokers answered "definitely not
Page 8 - This implies in turn that an increase in the cigarette excise tax would be an effective way to reduce teenage smoking.
Page 22 - ... they hold good only within limited conditions. Perhaps some of the laws of economics, such as the so-called laws of supply and demand, come closest to being general. But they explicitly apply only within certain institutional conditions — markets and prices — and only within limits even there. 'The higher the price of a commodity, the less a consumer will buy...
Page 4 - May 1989, was done in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. The following summarizes our findings, which are presented in more detail in appendixes I and II.

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