Tobacco tax

Rehabilitate the budget AND save lives in the process? Yes, we can!

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A pair of scales with a packet of cigarettes in the left pan, which is low to the ground, and banknotes and coins in the right pan, which is high to the ground: The costs of smoking far outweigh the tobacco tax revenue.

20.08.2024 The current tobacco tax policy in Germany is – to put it mildly – suboptimal. Smoking costs the healthcare system and the economy 97 billion euros a year. More than 30 billion of these costs arise from the treatment, care and rehabilitation of smokers and people who fall ill as a result of passive … Read more