http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/12400/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/abcs-dr-johnson-prescribes-higher-taxes-get-smokers-quit <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/ken-shepherd">Ken Shepherd</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Marking the one-year anniversary of longtime smoker Peter Jennings’ death from lung cancer, ABC’s Dr. Timothy Johnson wrote up a prescription as outdated and ineffective as bleeding a patient: growing government.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “At the government level there are three proven techniques. One is to raise prices by increasing taxes, the second is to limit access by minors, and the third is to conduct mass media campaigns,” Johnson said on the August 7 “World News with Charles Gibson.”</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/abcs-dr-johnson-prescribes-higher-taxes-get-smokers-quit" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Health Taxes blackmarket cigarette jennings mob smokers Smoking tax Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:35:42 +0000 admin 25101 at http://archive2.mrc.org