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Teenage Smoking: Higher Excise Tax Should Significantly Reduce the Number of Smokers

HRD-89-119 Published: Jun 30, 1989. Publicly Released: Jul 24, 1989.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the impact of cigarette excise taxes on teenage smoking, focusing on the: (1) extent and consequences of teenage smoking; and (2) the effects of cigarette excise tax increases on the number of teenage smokers.

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