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Issues in Economics Today
Issues in Economics Today
Robert Guell, Indiana State University

Tobacco and Alcohol

Web-Based Issues Questions

Question 18.1

Click on this site

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/index.htm

Peruse this government site dedicated to educating people with regard to tobacco smoking. Is it a proper role for government to propagandize its population against using a legal product? Would tobacco prohibition not be warranted given the concerns expressed by the CDC? Specifically look at the health consequences page http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/hlthcon.htm . Note the statistic that five million years of potential lifespan are lost due to smoking. What would you have predicted the number would be?

Question 18.2

Click on this article

http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/hnp/hddflash/hcnote/hrn001.html

Comment on the importance of elasticity in this article.





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