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A doubling of the federal excise tax between 1982 and 1983 and an increase in the wholesale price of cigarettes preceded an estimated 5 percent decline in per-capita consumption between 1983 and 1984 (Chaloupka et al

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Smoking's popularity has been greatly enhanced by how it's portrayed in pop culture as a sign of refinement, defiance, and machismo

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It doesnt come with the same gravitas as if an agency like OSH had reported on it, because OSH had an entire machinery for not just publishing but also disseminating this work, he explained sending out press releases and pitching major outlets, for example, so that policymakers are more likely to hear about the results of big surveys and act on them