Hellowell, Mark and Smith, Katherine E and Wright, Alexandra (2017) Hard to avoid but difficult to sustain: Scotland's innovative health tax on large retailers selling tobacco and alcohol. Millbank Quarterly, 94, (4), DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12200.
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A tax may be considered a “health” tax on the basis that it raises revenue for health spending and/or that it helps achieve health aims (eg, behavioral change), but there may be tension between these goals in policy design. Framing a tax as a health measure may increase public support in the short term, but this may not be sustained if such framing is insufficiently justified.
B Substances > Alcohol
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Health care economics
MP-MR Policy, planning, economics, work and social services > Economic policy
MP-MR Policy, planning, economics, work and social services > Economic aspects of substance use (cost / pricing)
VA Geographic area > Europe > United Kingdom > Scotland
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