Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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B&B in the News: Up in smoke

B&B in the News: Up in smoke

Spectator Australia uses B&B model to explain the unintended consequences of high tobacco excise taxes

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Kathryn Smith
Jun 04, 2021
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A columnist in the Spectator Australia this week compared the unintended effects of high excise taxes on tobacco to the bootleggers and Baptists of the Prohibition era.

Satyajeet Marar writes:

‘Today [May 31] marks “World No Tobacco Day”, a World Health Organization initiative to draw attention to the dangers of tobacco, what governments and health agenci…

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