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Italiano A year ago Dr. Garattini made a proposal: ”One euro added to every pack, more expensive cigarettes to finance research”. Great! 4.5 billion packs would bring in 4.5 billion euro!
Professor Silvio Garattini
But here is what he is saying today: “Six percent of the smokers would quit if the Minimum Price were raised to 5 euro”. Maybe the professor is not very good at adding and subtracting, because there is a very significant difference between adding one euro to a pack and increasing the Minimum Price.
In the first case, the money goes to the State, in the second, to the manufacturers… Has the professor made other arrangements for research? Read more »