The report notes fewer Australians smoke than 20 years ago and cites Laura Hunter saying, Australia now has some of the lowest smoking rates of any high-income country. Professor Coral Gartner is quoted: Theres no doubt that the tax has encouraged people to quit smoking. At the same time, the report says one in three Australian smokers uses illicit tobacco, and it cites organised crime networks and international overproduction as key drivers of that illicit market rather than price alone
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The persistent availability of e-cigarettes underscores the challenges of enforcement
Second, higher tobacco taxes generate significant new revenues that governments can use to support health and development objectives
While some nicotine e-cigarettes may help some smokers quit, it doesnt look like the devices and e-liquids tested in trials will be a saving grace for most smokers, even when used under clinical supervision
Revealingly, the Time feature predicted that Miami would remain, as the late President Jaime Rolds of Ecuador put it, the capital of Latin America
