According to the american lung association, for every ten percent increase in the price of a pack of cigarettes, youth smoking rates drop about seven percent. if lawmakers want to create a negative incentive for smoking, this information would support what action?
a) increase excise taxes on cigarettes.
b) decreased excise taxes for cigarettes.
c) lower the legal age to purchase tobacco products.
d) remove the surgeon general warning labels from cigarette packaging.

The correct answer is A) Increase excise taxes on cigarettes.

According to the American Lung Association, for every ten percent increase in the price of a pack of cigarettes, youth smoking rates drop about seven percent. If lawmakers want to create a negative incentive for smoking, this information would support the increase in excise taxes on cigarettes.

When we talk about taxation, excise taxes are the kind of taxes charged to alcohol, fuel or in this case tobacco. So more taxation on tobacco products could help to diminish the cigarette consumption of adolescents and young people in America because the price of cigarettes would increase considerably. Young people would be short of money due to the expensive tobacco products.

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forests are public goods, available for everybody. when usage of such a good becomes interesting for consumers and its usage increases, there can be a risk of overexploitation. it is a non rival good therefore, if one person consumes the good it does not reduce the availability for subsequent consumers.

these caracteristics require the establishment of measures in order to prevent the destruction of a commonly owned space, for example, to restrict the amount of people that have access to the same time.

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.