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The two areas where the measures appear most effective are advertising and taxes on tobacco, leading to a falling trend in smoking rates in the developed world

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This originally appeared in The Boston Globe on December 30, 2014

Tobacco taxes have historically disproportionately affected low-income residents, according to studies such as the 2012 study by RTI International researchers that found low-income smokers in New York spent a quarter of their household income on cigarettes because of the state's $4.35 per pack tax