Cook County Board president Toni Preckwinkle said of the tax hike: “It will bring in needed revenue to our public health system while lowering smoking rates and preventing people from picking up the deadly habit.” Evidently,
Some DePaul students who have picked up the smoking habit cannot help but agree with
However, according to DePaul Economics Professor Thomas Mondschean, the tax is unlikely to make a significant difference in the purchase of cigarettes. He concedes that the tax “may reduce some smoking” but insists that “cigarette demand is not very sensitive to…price.” He believes that, ultimately, the tax “will…raise revenue.”
Mondschean went on to say that “the money that is expected to be raised by the tax increase is less than one percent of the total budget for
Some people believe in the aims of the new tax but, nevertheless, consider it to be unrealistic and impractical. DePaul student William Weinberg conceded that the tax is “justifiable,” however he believes that the government did not think “critically” about it. Weinberg insists that “suppression leads to resistance.”
As evidence of this fact, Weinberg stated that he and some of his friends “have plans to make runs to