Cigarette Addiction

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Literature Review

Introduction: There has been an increasingly negative stigma surrounding cigarette smoking following public education efforts with regards to the detrimental effects of the habit. This social dynamic has produced an environment of increasing costs for cigarette companies in the form of higher specific taxes as well as mandated anti-smoking campaigns. This paper will research whether increases in cigarettes prices due to increased costs faced by the manufacturers will decrease demand significantly or whether the addiction to cigarettes is too strong.

The answer to this question is very interesting because there have been many advocates of the idea of taxing cigarettes heavily in an attempt to augment the demand function of cigarette smoking consumers, with the end result of less cigarette consumption in America. Every year millions of citizens suffer from health care problems ranging from minor health care maladies to death, many of these which would be non-existent with the absence of cigarette smoking. These problems are not solely dealt with by the consenting smoker, however, but also by non-consenting