{"id":6049,"date":"2018-04-11T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6049"},"modified":"2018-05-23T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T17:09:41","slug":"higher-cigarette-prices-would-help-millions-avoid-poor-health-and-extreme-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/higher-cigarette-prices-would-help-millions-avoid-poor-health-and-extreme-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher cigarette prices would help millions avoid poor health and extreme poverty<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raising the price of cigarettes benefits lower income people. In this study, researchers examined the impact of a 50 per cent increase in the cost of cigarettes on health, poverty, and financial protection in 13 middle-income countries. They found that higher tobacco prices provide more health and financial gains to the poorest 20 per cent than to the richest 20 per cent of the population.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/361\/bmj.k1162\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/361\/bmj.k1433\" target=\"_blank\">editorial<\/a> published April 11, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong> Prabhat Jha, University of Toronto &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:Prabhat.jha@utoronto.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Prabhat.jha@utoronto.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raising the price of cigarettes benefits lower income people. In this study, researchers examined the impact of a 50 per cent increase in the cost of cigarettes on health, poverty, and financial protection in 13 middle-income countries. They found that higher tobacco prices provide more health and financial gains to the poorest 20 per cent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1zz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6098,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049\/revisions\/6098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}