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Social campaigns to address the obesity crisis in America are failing. Lightspring/Shutterstock.com

January 27, 2020

Obesity, second to smoking as the most preventable cause of US deaths, needs new approaches

Dana Goldman, University of Southern California

Nearly 40% of Americans are obese, and the numbers are climbing. The U.S. needs to get serious about solutions.

Shao Fei lights a cigarette on a Beijing street in 2015 as a co-worker looks on. Shao said at the time that higher taxes on cigarettes would lead him to stop smoking. Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon

November 30, 2017

A tax increase that’s proven to save lives

Jeffrey Drope, Marquette University and Otis W. Brawley, Emory University

Tobacco taxes have been shown to curtail cigarette smoking. Why aren’t more countries, including the US, implementing them effectively?

California aggressively fights Big Tobacco usage in ads such as this, with funds voters allocated when they increased the tobacco tax by passing Proposition 99 in 1988. California Department of Public Health. California Department of Public Health

August 22, 2016

Big Tobacco aims its guns to kill California tobacco tax

Stanton Glantz, University of California, San Francisco

California has one of the nation’s lowest cigarette taxes, due in large part to a powerful tobacco lobby. The power could shift this fall, if a voters agree to raise taxes by $2 a pack.

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Stanton Glantz
Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Dana Goldman
Dean of the Sol Price School of Public Policy; Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy, Public Policy, and Economics, University of Southern California
Jeffrey Drope
Professor in Residence of Global Health, Marquette University
Otis W. Brawley
Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University

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