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Henry Waxman, a Democratic representative from California, used congressional oversight to wage a 25-year effort, from 1982 to 2009, to expose and mandate safeguards against the health hazards caused by tobacco products
The first documented tax was in ancient Egypt around 3000 B.C., where, among other things, an excise tax was levied on oil and beer.[7] Thousands of years later, in his famous book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , Adam Smith gave favorable mention to excise taxation: Sugar, rum, and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which [have]become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.[8] This quote may read like a suggestion to utilize excise taxes to generate general revenue, and Adam Smith is often invoked to argue that exact point, but it is not that simple
We also see this when we look at a map of smoking among women across the world: across much of Africa and Asia, rates are very low
