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This paper provides a critique of the global crusade recently launched by the World Bank and World Health Organization against tobacco, by providing some welfare estimates of the net costs associated from the rise in taxes that is proposed for India, S.Africa, S.Korea, Japan and the European Union. It critically examines conventional studies of the costs-benefits of smoking which besides ignoring the consumer surplus losses associated with tobacco taxation, also illegitimately take account of pecuniary externalities. It also critically examines the 'public health' argument against smoking, and the scientific basis of the epidemiological studies on which it is based. It finds the welfare losses associated with this crusade as large, particularly for the poorest countries. JEL classification: D61, H2, H31, I18, O12 Dept. of Economics, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024 February 2000
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