Higher cigarette taxes reduce child deaths

cigarette tax

Higher cigarette taxes reduce child deaths – first global estimates: The first global analysis of its kind estimates that if every country’s cigarette taxes had met the World Health Organization’s recommendations, around 182,000 newborn deaths could have been averted in 2018. Tobacco use can have direct and indirect effects on children’s health. For example, smoking during […]

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Covid crisis: how to save £30 billion

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New report sets out £30bn in government savings: How the Government can save £30 billion.  The Centre for Policy Studies has set out nine practical ideas for savings or asset sales which would deliver £30 billion a year to the Treasury without impacting frontline services or the coronavirus response READ MORE The coronavirus crisis has […]

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