By requiring bonding, New Jersey aims to promote transparency, accountability, and fiscal responsibility within the cigarette distribution industry, safeguarding the interests of both the state and consumers
3 Recently, a number of excellent analyses from Yale Budget Lab, McKibbon (2025), and Penn Wharton Budget Model have tried to estimate exactly how much revenue could plausibly be raised
In 2023, three quarters of Australians who currently smoked reported an attempt at changing their smoking behaviour
And all of that before Coronavirus - a respiratory disease from which smokers are more likely to die than non-smokers and against which the best defense is to not exhale our germs onto each other
The earlier you quit, the more positive the impactquitting two months in advance has markedly better outcomes than quitting a few days beforehand
Although obesity is a recognized health risk, there have been relatively few public policies designed to reduce its prevalence