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Canada’s ruinous tobacco display ban: economic and public health lessons


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True level of the UK government's debt estimated at £4.8 trillion

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Public Sector Pensions Commission final report

Controls have proved damaging and counterproductive

https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/upldbook517pdf.pdf
Despite UK display ban advocates’ repeated assertions, the empirical evidence does not demonstrate that tobacco display bans have reduced smoking prevalence or consumption in the four countries where they have been instituted: Canada, Iceland, Ireland, and Thailand. In this sense, display bans appear to be – like so many other tobacco control policies – highly ineffective.

A powerful and growing body of research evidence suggests that each country that implements a new tobacco display ban risks significant economic damage and a deterioration in public health.

2010, Discussion Paper 29

See also:

Does Advertising Increase Smoking by Hugh High

‘Tobacco tax proposals should go up in smoke’ by Mark Littlewood

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