Health officials pointed to secondhand smoke as a major threat, citing it as the third leading cause of preventable death in Michigan, responsible for an estimated 2,500 deaths each year
The poors share of the health benefit (measured in terms of averted death from tobacco related disease) is also always larger than the poors share of the increased taxation in the other countries of the study: China, India, and the Philippines, often by a wide margin

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