Plain packaging of tobacco will simply boost the black market

Stephanie Lis
23 January 2015
Lifestyle Economics

Plain packaging of tobacco will simply boost the black market

Last night we learned that the government plans to change the law to ensure that cigarettes are sold in plain packages. The ostensible goal of reducing the number of smokers may be well-intentioned, but in practice this will be a policy with a negligible health impact and extremely worrying repercussions for black market activity. International ... Continue reading
Stephanie Lis
23 January 2015
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Pssst! Wanna boost kids’ smoking? Have a display ban!

Patrick Basham
15 July 2010

Pssst! Wanna boost kids’ smoking? Have a display ban!

Public health regulations frequently serve exclusively to prevent legal capitalistic acts between consenting adults. But the fact that prohibition’s history is a history of failure never stops the good people in the public health establishment from promoting the next ban, or the next one after that. This brings us to the tobacco display ban, which ... Continue reading
Patrick Basham
15 July 2010
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