Editor’s Note: See, Weaponizing Poverty.
From: The Conversation
, Research Associate, Centre for Health Equity Training, Research and Evaluation, UNSW
Reader, Global Public Health Unit, University of Edinburgh
Tobacco tax increases in Australia that will see a packet of cigarettes costing A$40 may discourage smoking, but will end up having unintended consequences for poorer smokers, new research shows.
According to our recently published paper, low-income smokers who continue to smoke will have to spend more of their limited incomes on tobacco, potentially foregoing other household expenses, like food. Poorer smokers will also be further stigmatised by continuing to smoke.
