A Significant Cigarette Tax Rate Increase in Louisiana Would Produce a Large, Sustained Increase in State Tobacco Tax Revenues
This report outlines what Louisiana could expect from a tobacco tax increase, including a large, sustained increase in state tobacco tax revenues as well as declining smoking rates and reductions in public and private health expenditures.
February 2016
Location(s): North America, U.S.
Content Type: Report
Topic(s): Cost-effectiveness, Economic impacts of tobacco control, Healthcare costs, Impact on demand, Tax and price, Tax levels and structure, Tobacco taxes revenues, Tobacco use
Authors(s): Frank J. Chaloupka, Ph.D., Jidong Huang, Ph.D.
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