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Gloor said the last time the state raised the tobacco tax was in the early part of the last decade. “But the cost of health care during that time has gone up dramatically,” he said. Illnesses that come with tobacco addiction and associated illnesses cost Nebraska an estimated $130 million.
“But what that doesn’t include is all the people who are in long-term care and who are being paid for by taxpayers under Medicaid for long-term care in nursing homes with lung disease,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], emphysema, congestive heart failure, and they are in those nursing homes because they were smokers,” Gloor said. He said it’s not a tax that all people have to pay ― just those who are addicted to tobacco products. “It is not a tax anybody has to pay,” he said.
“It is one of the few taxes you can say you are not paying it. The way you make that protest is you stop smoking.” “The tax increases had no impact on cigarette prices set by the STMA, as the tobacco producers and dealers had a big enough profit margin to absorb the burden themselves rather than pass it on to consumers,” Hu says.
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As more than half of Chinese smokers pay less than 5 yuan per pack, a big enough tax hike would persuade many poorer smokers to quit if almost 11 per cent of their household expenditure went on cigarettes, says Hu. Given China’s unique tobacco culture, experts say clear health warnings on cigarette packets would be another effective tool in curbing demand.
While it may be good to protect the stakeholders of most industries, the tobacco industry is unlike any another. It makes and sells a product that kills half of all its regular users; causes widespread human addiction, disease, and disability; poisons and destroys the environment; and negatively impacts families and national economies.
Therefore it is ridiculous and illogical for PATDA to request that the delegation to COP4 be composed of representatives who will protect the industry’s interests. Among others, such action would violate Article 5.3 of the treaty, which requires parties to protect its public health policies from commercial and other vested interests of the industry.