Higher cigarette taxes may improve childhood survival

A higher tax on cigarettes in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) can help to reduce child mortality, especially among the poorest children, a new study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and published in The Lancet Public Health suggests. The paper is titled “Cigarette taxation and socioeconomic inequalities in under-five mortality across 94 low- and middle-income countries.”

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