A recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine
Cigarettes eat up the incomes of the poor
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We can bring down cigarette smoking rates much further, much faster, if strategies proven to work are put in place like funding tobacco control programs at the CDC-recommended levels, increasing prices of tobacco products, implementing and enforcing comprehensive smoke-free laws, and sustaining hard-hitting media campaigns. While smoking rates have dropped, there is a significant need to help those who continue to smoke
Yet it is generally considered poor tax policy to fund general purpose programs using revenues raised from only a minority of the population, such as smokers
The emergence of e-cigarettes in the UK has caused no small amount of controversy