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Smoking · United StatesQuitting smoking in Rhode Island just got more expensive. Included in the state’s budget, passed in June, was an 80 percent tax increase on nicotine pouches. The tax represents a fundamental misunderstanding of sound public health policy and effective taxation. It threatens to undermine harm reduction efforts while creating perverse incentives that could worsen public health outcomes in the Ocean State. Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Admin…See the Story
Nicotine Pouch Taxes Undermine Efforts to Help Smokers Quit
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UnionsGeorge Santayana (1863–1952), a Spanish-American philosopher, is known for the adage, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The saying is intended to admonish and warn us that failing to learn from historical mistakes leads to their repetition. Recent efforts in multiple states to undo public pension reforms of the past are a real-time illustration of the fragility of good pension policy. With term limits and ever-evo…See the Story
Important public pension reforms are under threat in several states
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