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Higher cigarette taxes--healthier people, wealthier state: the Hungarian experience.
OBJECTIVE To prove that higher cigarette taxes eventually decrease smoking and do also increase state incomes from tobacco taxes by using Hungarian figures. METHOD Collection and analysis of available data on tobacco use, levels of excise and value added taxes on tobacco products and state incomes originating from the tobacco sector. CONCLUSIONS In Hungary, regular tobacco tax increases res...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Human Resources
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0022-166X
DOI: 10.2307/146149