In Part as an Effort to Discourage Smoking, Australia Has

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Essay

In part as an effort to discourage smoking, Australia has some of the highest levels of cigarette taxation in the world.Do you think a tax on cigarettes dramatically decreases the number of people smoking? Is taxing cigarettes an effective way to raise revenue for the government from smokers? (Hint: given that smoking is addictive, what does this imply about the elasticity of demand?)

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Definitions:

Ordinal Level

A measurement scale that categorizes data while preserving the order of the categories but not assuming equal intervals between them.

Order

The arrangement or sequence of elements or events in a particular way.

Outlier

An observation in a data set that is distant from other observations, often indicating a measurement error or a unique phenomenon.

Mode

The most prevalent figure found in a group of data points.