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Most states do not provide nearly as much help for poor smokers.
Poor smokers were seen to shame the nation, squandering time and money.
Outcomes are generally worse among females, the poor, smokers, drinkers and those who have less than 20 teeth.
As poor smokers are generally more price sensitive, increasing prices of tobacco might be another option to discourage them (e.g. who live in slums) to smoke.
Studies have shown that poor smokers with low schooling levels respond more positively to taxes and prices increases if the illegal market was brought under proper control [ 2].
Price increases will have a disproportionate adverse economic effect on poor smokers who continue to smoke, but not all of them will be prompted to buy cheaper cigarettes notorious for higher nicotine and tar contents.
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The taxes are also less regressive than they appear, because poorer smokers are more likely to quit when the price increases.
Providing properly regulated electronic cigarettes on prescription would make them available free to the poorest smokers who find it hardest to quit.
They also found that poorer smokers were more responsive to tobacco prices than their richer counterparts.
Yet their levels of addiction, financial literacy and overall decision making result in this strategy yielding lower results among the poorest smokers [ 92].
The attorneys general plead that their states are especially burdened by having to sustain poor, uninsured smokers during the terminal stages of cancer and so on.
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