Menzel P
Department of Philosophy, Pacific Lutheran University, USA.
Health Care Anal. 1994 Feb;2(1):13-22. doi: 10.1007/BF02251331.
This paper offers a relatively comprehensive assessment of government anti-smoking policies (both taxation and other regulatory measures). I conclude that interventions to engender in smokers and prospective smokers an accurate perception of tobacco's health risks are justified, that except in the case of adolescents addiction by itself does not justify intervention beyond providing adequate information, that the proper goal of tobacco taxation policy should be to recoup only the extra costs that smokers place on others (at most a $1/pack tax on cigarettes), and that passive smoke's imposition of harm on unconsenting others strongly supports at least the development of a safe-to-others smokeless cigarette, if not direct intervention.
本文对政府的反吸烟政策（包括税收和其他监管措施）进行了较为全面的评估。我的结论是，促使吸烟者和未来吸烟者准确认识烟草健康风险的干预措施是合理的；除青少年外，成瘾本身并不足以成为除提供充分信息之外进行干预的理由；烟草税收政策的恰当目标应该只是收回吸烟者给他人带来的额外成本（对香烟最多征收每包1美元的税）；如果不进行直接干预，二手烟对不吸烟者造成的危害有力地支持至少开发一种对他人安全的无烟香烟。
