title: A balanced tobacco control policy.
abstract: By raising the price of cigarettes through tobacco taxes, policymakers might only be delaying some smokers' initiation of smoking rather than permanently preventing them from smoking. This is one of several reasons for adopting a balanced tobacco control policy that relies only in part on cigarette taxation.
authors.affiliation: School of Law, University of California, Berkeley 94720-7200, USA. sugarman@law.berkeley.edu
authors.forename: Stephen D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Sugarman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D017668:Age of Onset; D002651:Child Advocacy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011050:Policy Making; D015995:Prevalence; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D012907:Smoking / Q000191:economics* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D013660:Taxes / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013995:Time; D019460:Tobacco Industry / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology