and Gene Dattel, Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009), 370371
The most frequently cited barrier was that making changes to how tobacco is sold hurts their business (29%)
We will never succeed in eliminating tobacco-caused death and disease unless state policymakers find the political will to fund these vital and proven-effective tobacco prevention programs. Despite claims that the tobacco industry has changed its behavior as a result of the master settlement agreement and the Department of Justice RICO case, the industry still engages in nefarious tactics to make a profit by selling deadly products and to oppose sound public health laws to protect individuals from exposure to secondhand smoke, tax tobacco products, and limit where products are sold, said Cynthia Hallett, MPH, Executive Director of Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
It does not represent a complete tax reform package, but rather a menu of choices that could become part of a budget-balancing plan.[1] Policymakers are considering state tax reform at a time when Minnesota tax revenues are a smaller share of the states economy than a decade ago
Although the chapter focuses primarily on childhood through young adulthood, it also briefly considers the pre-natal period and examines the adverse effects of smoking before conception as well, even though that is not a main focus of this report
