Take a moment to consider this health care prescription from Adam Smith: "Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, [but] which are … objects of almost universal consumption and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation." In the two centuries since, policy-makers have followed his advice — with one glaring exception: sugar. … Back to Article
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